Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 81
And would he marry another wife?
Who acts: Majnun · What happens: marry · To what, where: wife
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 (Majnun), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 marry | cc |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 marry | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 marry | nsubj |
| 4 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 wife | det |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marry | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | would | Majnun | another wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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