The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 8

And he told his vizir, ‘My date tree is bearing;’ and he told the officers, ‘My date tree is bearing;’ and he told the judges, ‘My date tree is bearing;’ and he told all the rich men of the town.

Who acts: sultan, date tree · What happens: tell, bear · To what, where: vizir, officers, judges, rich men · 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 (sultan, date tree), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 vizir	nmod:poss
5	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bearing	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 bearing	punct
8	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tree	nmod:poss
9	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bearing	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bearing	aux
12	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 bearing	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 bearing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 officers	det
19	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 told	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bearing	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 bearing	punct
22	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tree	nmod:poss
23	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tree	compound
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bearing	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bearing	aux
26	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 told	ccomp
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 bearing	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 bearing	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 told	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	nsubj
31	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 judges	det
33	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 told	iobj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 bearing	punct
35	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 bearing	punct
36	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 tree	nmod:poss
37	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tree	compound
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bearing	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 bearing	aux
40	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 told	ccomp
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 bearing	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	40 bearing	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 told	cc
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 told	nsubj
45	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 told	conj
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 men	det:predet
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 men	det
48	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 men	amod
49	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 told	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 town	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 town	det
52	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 men	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	sultan	sultan's vizir	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bear	present · progressive	My date tree		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	past	sultan	the officers	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient clause=Topic
4	bear	present · progressive	My date tree		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert	past	sultan	the judges	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent judge=Recipient clause=Topic
6	bear	present · progressive	My date tree		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	tell speech: assert	past	sultan	all rich men of the town	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient

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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