Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 36

When the Jogi again prepared himself to cut at the root as requested, the bamboo said, "Do not cut at the root, cut higher up;" and when he was about to cut higher up, it again called out to him, "Do not cut high up, cut at the root."

Who acts: Jogi, bamboo · What happens: prepare, cut, request, say, not cut, be · To what, where: Jogi, root · 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	5 prepared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Jogi	det
3	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 prepared	nsubj
4	again	again	ADV	_	5 prepared	advmod
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 prepared	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cut	mark
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 prepared	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 root	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 root	det
11	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 requested	mark
13	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cut	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 prepared	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bamboo	det
16	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
20	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 cut	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 cut	advmod
22	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 root	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 root	det
25	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cut	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cut	punct
27	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cut	advcl
28	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 cut	advmod
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 higher	compound:prt
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 about	cc
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 about	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 about	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 about	cop
36	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 cut	mark
38	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 about	xcomp
39	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 up	advmod
40	up	up	ADV	_	38 cut	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 called	punct
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 called	nsubj:pass
43	again	again	ADV	_	44 called	advmod
44	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	conj
45	out	out	ADP	_	44 called	compound:prt
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 called	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 cut	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 cut	punct
50	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	52 cut	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 cut	advmod
52	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
53	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	54 up	advmod
54	up	up	ADV	_	52 cut	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 cut	punct
56	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 cut	advcl
57	at	at	ADP	_	59 root	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 root	det
59	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 cut	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 cut	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	past	the Jogi	Jogi		again		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme clause=Attribute
2	cut not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Jogi not said here				at the root	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at root=Patient
3	request	participle	the Jogi not said here					vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the bamboo					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not cut in a quote	infinitive · do-support					at the root	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at root=Patient
6	cut in a quote	infinitive					high property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	Jogi				about property	tree rules
8	cut	to-infinitive	Jogi not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		root	Jogi	again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to he=Recipient
10	not cut in a quote	infinitive · do-support						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
11	cut in a quote	participle					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.

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