Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 46
It is, however," he added, "impossible that the parrot should sustain any injury, both on account of the inaccessibility of the country, and because, by my appointment, many thousand genii surround the palm trees, and kill all who approach the place."
Who acts: parrot, country, many thousand genii · What happens: be, add, sustain, surround, kill, approach · To what, where: injury, account, palm trees, all, place, inaccessibility · 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 (parrot, country, many thousand genii), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 is | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 added | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 added | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 added | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 added | nsubj |
| 8 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 impossible | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 impossible | punct |
| 11 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 added | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 sustain | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 parrot | det |
| 14 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sustain | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sustain | aux |
| 16 | sustain | sustain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 impossible | csubj |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 injury | det |
| 18 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sustain | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 account | punct |
| 20 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 account | det |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 account | case |
| 22 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sustain | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 inaccessibility | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 inaccessibility | det |
| 25 | inaccessibility | inaccessibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 account | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 country | det |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 inaccessibility | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 kill | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 kill | cc |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 40 surround | mark |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 appointment | punct |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 appointment | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 appointment | nmod:poss |
| 35 | appointment | appointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 surround | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 appointment | punct |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 genii | amod |
| 38 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 genii | nummod |
| 39 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 surround | nsubj |
| 40 | surround | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 kill | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 trees | det |
| 42 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 trees | compound |
| 43 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 surround | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 kill | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 kill | cc |
| 46 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 added | advcl |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 kill | obj |
| 48 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 approach | nsubj |
| 49 | approach | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 all | acl:relcl |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 place | det |
| 51 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 approach | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | parrot | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | country | however property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sustain | should | the parrot | any injury | both account of the inaccessibility of the country | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent injury=Theme | |||
| 4 | surround | present | many thousand genii | the palm trees | by my appointment | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Co-Theme | |||
| 5 | kill | infinitive | country not said here | all | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 6 | approach | present | the place | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 7 | account | the inaccessibility of the country | nom account «communication 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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