Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 12

He answered, "I am a Raja's son, and I come in search of my father, and my uncles, and my mother whom a wicked enchanter bewitched."

Who acts: Balna · What happens: answer, be, come, bewitch, search · To what, where: son, uncles, search, wicked enchanter, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balna), 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 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 son	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 son	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 son	det
8	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Raja	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answered	vocative
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 search	case
16	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 father	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 search	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 uncles	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 uncles	cc
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 uncles	nmod:poss
23	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 whom	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 whom	cc
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 whom	nsubj
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 answered	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 enchanter	det
30	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 enchanter	amod
31	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 whom	nsubj
32	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 enchanter	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 whom	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 whom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Balna			tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	Balna	Raja's son		tree rules
3	come in a quote	present	Balna	my uncles	search of my father	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Location
4	bewitch in a quote	participle		a wicked enchanter not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	search in a quote			my father		nom search «act transitive»: of=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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