The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 23

Shall I tell him that Bedouins drove me away, and when I returned there were no dates?

Who acts: I, Bedouins, dates · What happens: tell, drive away, return, be · To what, where: storm, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Bedouins, dates), 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	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 drove	mark
6	Bedouins	bedouin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drove	nsubj
7	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 drove	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 drove	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 returned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 returned	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 returned	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 returned	nsubj
14	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	parataxis
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 were	expl
16	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 returned	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 dates	det
18	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 were	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	shall	I		storm			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	drive away	past	Bedouins	me			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	return	past	I					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be	past	no dates			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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