Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 42
The elder brother wished to purchase it, and offered to support the Jogi for a whole year if he would consent to part with his wonderful instrument.
Who acts: elder brother, Jogi · What happens: wish, purchase, offer, support, consent · To what, where: Fiddle, Jogi, part
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 (elder brother, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 purchase | mark |
| 6 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wished | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 purchase | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 offered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 offered | cc |
| 10 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wished | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 support | mark |
| 12 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 offered | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Jogi | det |
| 14 | Jogi | Jogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 support | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 year | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 year | amod |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 support | obl |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 consent | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 consent | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 consent | aux |
| 22 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 support | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 part | mark |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 consent | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 instrument | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 instrument | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 instrument | amod |
| 28 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 part | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the elder brother | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | purchase not said to happen | to-infinitive | the elder brother not said here | Fiddle | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | offer | participle | the elder brother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | support not said to happen | to-infinitive | the elder brother not said here | the Jogi | year | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jogi=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | consent a condition, not said to happen | would | Jogi | part | with Jogi's wonderful instrument | tree rules |
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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