Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 29
Well," said the fakir, "when you come to the Bhagirathi river you will see a big fish, a Rohu; and you must get him to carry you to Prince Majnun's country, or you will never reach it."
Who acts: you, fakir · What happens: say, come, see, get, carry, not reach · To what, where: fakir, Bhagirathi river, big fish, you, country, fish · 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 (you, fakir), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fakir | det |
| 6 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 come | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 14 | Bhagirathi | Bhagirathi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 river | compound |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 river | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fish | det |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fish | amod |
| 21 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Rohu | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Rohu | det |
| 24 | Rohu | Rohu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fish | appos |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 get | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 get | cc |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 get | nsubj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 get | aux |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 get | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 carry | mark |
| 32 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 get | xcomp |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 carry | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 country | case |
| 35 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Majnun | nmod:desc |
| 36 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 country | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 Majnun | case |
| 38 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 carry | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 reach | punct |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 reach | cc |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 reach | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 reach | aux |
| 43 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 44 reach | advmod |
| 44 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 get | parataxis |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 reach | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 reach | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the fakir | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | present | you | the Bhagirathi river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | future | you | a big fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get | must | you | fakir | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | carry | to-infinitive | fakir not said here | you | Majnun Prince's country | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to country=Destination | |||
| 6 | not reach | future | you | fish | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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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