Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 67
"Pray to Khuda," said Laili, "to make us both young again, and then we shall be married."
Who acts: Laili · What happens: pray, say, make, marry · To what, where: Khuda, us, we · 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pray | punct |
| 2 | Pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Khuda | case |
| 4 | Khuda | Khuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pray | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pray | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pray | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 young | advmod |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 make | xcomp |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 make | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 married | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 married | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 married | advmod |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 married | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 married | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 married | aux:pass |
| 23 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 make | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray in a quote | infinitive | Khuda | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Laili | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | us | again | young property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product | |||
| 4 | marry in a quote | shall · passive | we | then | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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