Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 9
Who is this Majnun? who ever heard of this Majnun?" he would say.
Who acts: Majnun · What happens: be, hear, say · To what, where: 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 (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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 Majnun | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Majnun | cop |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Majnun | det |
| 4 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 heard | advmod |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Majnun | acl:relcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Majnun | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 Majnun | det |
| 11 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 Majnun | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Majnun | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 say | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | aux |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 heard | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Majnun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this Majnun | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | this Majnun | ever | of this Majnun | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | would | Majnun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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