Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 34

So one day he brought an axe to cut it down; but when he was about to begin, the bamboo called out, "Do not cut at the root, cut higher up."

Who acts: Jogi · What happens: bring, cut down, be, begin, call out, not cut · To what, where: axe, bamboo · 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 (Jogi), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 brought	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	nsubj
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 axe	det
7	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cut	mark
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 brought	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cut	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 about	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 about	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 about	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 about	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 about	cop
17	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brought	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 begin	mark
19	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 about	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bamboo	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bamboo	det
22	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 begin	obl
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 bamboo	acl
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 called	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cut	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 cut	punct
27	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 cut	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 cut	advmod
29	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begin	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 root	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 root	det
32	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cut	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cut	punct
34	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 cut	advcl
35	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 up	advmod
36	up	up	ADV	_	34 cut	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	Jogi	a axe	day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
2	cut down	to-infinitive	Jogi not said here	axe			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	is	past	Jogi			about property	tree rules
4	begin	to-infinitive	Jogi not said here	the bamboo			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	call out speech: assert	participle		the bamboo not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not cut in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Jogi not said here			at the root	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at root=Patient
7	cut in a quote	infinitive	Jogi not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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