Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 100
Now," he said, "it is Khuda's command that you stay here till Prince Majnun comes to walk in the garden, and then you may show yourself to him.
Who acts: Dantal, garden, command, you · What happens: say, be, stay, come, walk, show · To what, where: command, garden, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dantal, garden, command, you), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 command | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 command | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 command | cop |
| 10 | Khuda | Khuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 command | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Khuda | case |
| 12 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stay | nsubj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 stay | nsubj |
| 15 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 command | acl:relcl |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 stay | advmod |
| 17 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 Majnun | case |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Majnun | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 stay | obl |
| 20 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 walk | mark |
| 22 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 comes | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 garden | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 garden | det |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walk | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 show | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 show | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 show | advmod |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 show | nsubj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 show | aux |
| 31 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 comes | parataxis |
| 32 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 show | iobj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 show | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Dantal | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | garden | Khuda's command | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay | present | Khuda's command | here | till Majnun Prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | come | present | Khuda's command | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | walk | to-infinitive | Khuda's command not said here | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | show | may | you | yourself | then | to Dantal | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic to he=Recipient |
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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