Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 72
When Laili saw their blindness, she prayed to Khuda to restore their sight to them, which he did.
Who acts: Laili, father, feasts · What happens: see, pray, restore, do, sight · To what, where: blindness, Khuda, sight, feasts
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, father, feasts), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 prayed | advcl |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 blindness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | blindness | blindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 prayed | nsubj |
| 8 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Khuda | case |
| 10 | Khuda | Khuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 prayed | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 restore | mark |
| 12 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 prayed | xcomp |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sight | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 restore | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 restore | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 did | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 restore | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Laili | feasts's blindness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blindness=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pray | past | Laili | Khuda | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | restore | to-infinitive | Laili not said here | feasts's sight | feasts = feast | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sight=Theme to they=Recipient | |||
| 4 | do | past | father | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | sight | feasts = feast | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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