The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 36
In the morning when they awoke, Mulimo the Great Spirit was standing by them; and he said: 'O Makoma and Sakatirina!
Who acts: strength, Mulimo · What happens: awake, stand, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, Mulimo), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awoke | obl |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 awoke | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 awoke | nsubj |
| 6 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mulimo | punct |
| 8 | Mulimo | Mulimo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Spirit | det |
| 10 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Spirit | flat |
| 11 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mulimo | appos |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 standing | aux |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 awoke | ccomp |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 standing | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 awoke | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 Makoma | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 Makoma | punct |
| 22 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 23 Makoma | case |
| 23 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Sakatirina | cc |
| 25 | Sakatirina | Sakatirina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Makoma | conj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | strength | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | Mulimo | by strength | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by they=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mulimo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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