Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 58
There some men heard her crying, "Majnun, Majnun; I want Majnun," and they asked her what she wanted. "
Who acts: men, Laili, fish · What happens: hear, cry, want, ask · To what, where: 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 (men, Laili, fish), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | expl |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 heard | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Majnun | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Majnun | punct |
| 9 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 crying | 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 | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 15 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 want | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | iobj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 wanted | obj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wanted | nsubj |
| 24 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | some men | Laili | there | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | Laili not said here | Majnun and Majnun | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majnun=Topic | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | the fish = fish | Majnun | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot majnun=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | men = man | Laili | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | want | past | Laili | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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