Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 14
All the time she kept saying, "Majnun, Majnun; I want Majnun."
Who acts: Laili · What happens: keep, say, want · To what, where: Majnun · 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 (Laili), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kept | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Majnun | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Majnun | punct |
| 9 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saying | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Majnun | punct |
| 11 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Majnun | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | advcl |
| 15 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 want | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Laili | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Laili not said here | Majnun and Majnun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent majnun=Topic | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | Laili | Majnun | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot majnun=Theme |
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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