Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 7
Therefore, I say, "He who makes foolish plans for the future will be white all over, like the father of Somasarman."
Who acts: I, boy, foolish plans · What happens: say, make, be · 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 (I, boy, foolish plans), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 say | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
| 7 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | conj |
| 10 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plans | amod |
| 11 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 white | nsubj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 future | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 future | det |
| 14 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plans | nmod |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 white | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 white | cop |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 makes | ccomp |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 over | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 white | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 father | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 father | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 father | det |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | advcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Somasarman | case |
| 25 | Somasarman | Somasarman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 father | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | I | therefore property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | boy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | foolish plans for the future | over, white property | 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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