Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 35

When he lifted his axe to cut high up the stem, the bamboo cried out, "Do not cut near the top, cut at the root."

Who acts: Jogi, bamboo · What happens: lift, cut, cry out, not cut · To what, where: axe, stem, top · 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, bamboo), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 lifted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lifted	nsubj
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 axe	nmod:poss
5	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cut	mark
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lifted	xcomp
8	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 cut	advmod
9	up	up	ADP	_	11 stem	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stem	det
11	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lifted	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bamboo	det
14	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cried	nsubj
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 cried	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cut	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 cut	punct
19	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 cut	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 cut	advmod
21	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	parataxis
22	near	near	ADP	_	24 top	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 top	det
24	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cut	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cut	punct
26	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 top	acl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 root	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 root	det
29	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cut	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cut	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	Jogi	Jogi's axe			tree rules
2	cut	to-infinitive	Jogi not said here		the stem	high property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up stem=Location
3	cry out speech: express	past	the bamboo				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not cut in a quote	infinitive · do-support			the top		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	cut in a quote	participle		the top not said here		at the root	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at root=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/35/