The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 9

He waited patiently for some days till the dates were nearly ripe, and then he called his six sons, and said: ‘One of you must watch the date tree till the dates are ripe, for if it is not watched the slaves will steal them, and I shall not have any for another year.’

Who acts: sultan, dates, One, slaves, I · What happens: wait, be, call, say, watch, not watch · To what, where: six sons, date tree, vizir, trees, any · 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, dates, One, slaves), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	2 waited	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 days	det
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waited	obl
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 ripe	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dates	det
9	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ripe	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ripe	cop
11	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	12 ripe	advmod
12	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 waited	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 called	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 called	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj
17	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sons	nmod:poss
19	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 sons	nummod
20	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 called	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 One	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 One	punct
26	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 watch	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 One	nmod
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 watch	aux
30	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tree	det
32	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tree	compound
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 watch	obj
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 ripe	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dates	det
36	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 ripe	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 ripe	cop
38	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 watch	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 steal	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 watched	mark
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 watched	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 watched	nsubj:pass
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 watched	aux:pass
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 watched	advmod
45	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 steal	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 slaves	det
47	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 steal	nsubj
48	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 steal	aux
49	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 watch	conj
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 steal	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 have	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 have	cc
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 have	nsubj
54	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 have	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 have	advmod
56	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waited	parataxis
57	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	56 have	obj
58	for	for	ADP	_	60 year	case
59	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	60 year	det
60	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 any	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	56 have	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	56 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	sultan			day	patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the dates				nearly, ripe property	tree rules
3	call	past	sultan		sultan's six sons	then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	sultan not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	watch	must	One of you	the date tree				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
6	is	present	the dates				ripe property	tree rules
7	not watch a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		vizir				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	steal	future	the slaves	trees = tree				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
9	not have	shall	I	any		for another year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient

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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