Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 114
Indeed King Dantal did not believe Majnun had seen anything at all, till Husain Mahamat said the prince was speaking the exact truth.
Who acts: Indeed King Dantal, Majnun, Husain, prince · What happens: not believe, see, say, speak · To what, where: anything, all, exact truth · 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 (Indeed King Dantal, Majnun, Husain, prince), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dantal | amod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dantal | compound |
| 3 | Dantal | Dantal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 believe | advmod |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 believe | ccomp |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 seen | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 anything | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 said | mark |
| 15 | Husain | Husain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 16 | Mahamat | Mahamat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Husain | flat |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speaking | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 speaking | aux |
| 21 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 truth | det |
| 23 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 truth | amod |
| 24 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speaking | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | past · do-support | Indeed King Dantal | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | Majnun | anything | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Husain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | the prince | the exact truth | 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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