Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 27
"Oh! my brother, the water reaches to my neck, Still, Oh! my brother, the pitcher will not dip."
Who acts: brother, pitcher · What happens: reach, not dip · To what, where: brother
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 (brother, pitcher), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 brother | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reaches | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reaches | nsubj |
| 9 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 neck | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neck | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reaches | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brother | punct |
| 14 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 19 brother | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Still | punct |
| 16 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 19 brother | discourse |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Oh | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reaches | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dip | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pitcher | det |
| 22 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dip | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 dip | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 dip | advmod |
| 25 | dip | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 reaches | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 dip | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 dip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach in a quote | present | my brother | my brother | to my neck | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not dip in a quote | future | the pitcher | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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