Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 34
Then endeavour to find out what his power consists in, and whether he is immortal, or can be put to death."
Who acts: you, power · What happens: endeavour, find out, consist in, be, put · 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 (you, power), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 endeavour | advmod |
| 2 | endeavour | endeavour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 endeavour | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 find | compound:prt |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 consists | obj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 power | nmod:poss |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 consists | nsubj |
| 9 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 consists | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 immortal | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 immortal | cc |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 immortal | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 immortal | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 immortal | cop |
| 16 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 endeavour | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 put | aux:pass |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 immortal | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 endeavour | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 endeavour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endeavour | imperative | you not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | consist in | present | son's power | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | power | immortal property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put | can · passive | power not said here | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
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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