Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 25
At the end of the twelve years she met a fakir--he was really an angel, but she did not know this--who asked her, "Why do you always say, 'Majnun, Majnun; I want Majnun'?"
Who acts: Laili, fakir, I · What happens: meet, be, not know, ask, say, want · To what, where: fakir, end, angel, this, Laili, 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, fakir, I), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 years | det |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | nmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 met | nsubj |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fakir | det |
| 11 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 angel | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 angel | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 angel | cop |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 angel | advmod |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 angel | det |
| 17 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 know | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 met | parataxis |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 know | obj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 asked | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 asked | nsubj |
| 27 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 asked | iobj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 say | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 say | punct |
| 31 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 say | advmod |
| 32 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 say | aux |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 say | nsubj |
| 34 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 35 say | advmod |
| 35 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 asked | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Majnun | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 Majnun | punct |
| 38 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 say | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Majnun | punct |
| 40 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Majnun | conj |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 want | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 want | nsubj |
| 43 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | parataxis |
| 44 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 want | obj |
| 45 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 44 Majnun | case |
| 46 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Laili | a fakir | at the end of the twelve years | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | fakir | a angel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | Laili | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Laili | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · do-support | Laili | always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | want in a quote | present | I | 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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