Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 91
Then, with the calves, I shall buy buffaloes; with the buffaloes, mares.
Who acts: I · What happens: buy · To what, where: buffaloes
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 (I), 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 | 9 buy | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 calves | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 calves | det |
| 5 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 buy | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 calves | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 buy | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 buy | aux |
| 9 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 buy | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 buffaloes | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 buffaloes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 buffaloes | det |
| 14 | buffaloes | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 buy | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mares | punct |
| 16 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 buffaloes | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | shall | I | buffaloes | then | with the calves; with the buffaloes and mares | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme |
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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