Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 119
Your dear little uncle, your very sweet nephew, you call me!
Who acts: dear little uncle · What happens: call · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear little uncle), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 uncle | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 uncle | amod |
| 4 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 call | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nephew | punct |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 sweet | advmod |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nephew | amod |
| 9 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uncle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 call | nsubj |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 call | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Your dear little uncle your sweet nephew | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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