Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 4
One night, some time before Prince Majnun came to her father's kingdom, as she slept, Khuda sent to her an angel in the form of a man who told her that she should marry Prince Majnun and no one else, and that this was Khuda's command to her.
Who acts: time, Laili, Khuda, man, this · What happens: come, sleep, send, tell, marry, be · To what, where: kingdom, angel, Laili, form, Majnun, man · 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 (time, Laili, Khuda, man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 Majnun | case |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Majnun | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 father | case |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slept | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 slept | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 slept | nsubj |
| 18 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 20 | Khuda | Khuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | obl |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 angel | det |
| 25 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 form | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 form | det |
| 28 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 man | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 form | nmod |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 told | nsubj |
| 33 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 man | acl:relcl |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 told | iobj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 marry | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 marry | nsubj |
| 37 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 marry | aux |
| 38 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 told | advcl |
| 39 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Majnun | nmod:desc |
| 40 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 marry | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 one | cc |
| 42 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 43 one | det |
| 43 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Majnun | appos |
| 44 | else | else | ADV | _ | 43 one | advmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 command | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 command | cc |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 command | mark |
| 48 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 Khuda | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 Khuda | cop |
| 50 | Khuda | Khuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 command | compound |
| 51 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 50 Khuda | case |
| 52 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | parataxis |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 her | case |
| 54 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 command | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | some time before Majnun Prince | Laili's father's kingdom | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sleep | past | Laili | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | send | past | Khuda | a angel | Laili | the form of a man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent angel=Theme to she=Destination | ||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | a man | Laili | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | marry | should | Laili | Majnun Prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majnun=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | this | 's Khuda | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | form | a man | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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