More English Fairy Tales, LV. Lawkamercyme, sentence 10
The Arab yokel coming to Bagdad is fearful of losing his identity, and ties a pumpkin to his leg before going to sleep.
Who acts: Arab yokel · What happens: come, be, lose, tie, go, sleep · To what, where: Bagdad, identity, pumpkin
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arab yokel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 yokel | det |
| 2 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 yokel | amod |
| 3 | yokel | yokel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fearful | nsubj |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 yokel | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Bagdad | case |
| 6 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fearful | cop |
| 8 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 losing | mark |
| 10 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 fearful | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 identity | nmod:poss |
| 12 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 losing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ties | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ties | cc |
| 15 | ties | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fearful | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pumpkin | det |
| 17 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ties | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 leg | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 leg | nmod:poss |
| 20 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ties | obl |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 going | mark |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 ties | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 sleep | mark |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 going | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fearful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | the Arab yokel not said here | Bagdad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Arab yokel | fearful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | the Arab yokel not said here | Bagdad's identity | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | tie | present | a pumpkin | to Bagdad's leg | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pumpkin=Patient to leg=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | go | gerund | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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