Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 95

At last the angel who had come as a fakir and thrown the powder at her, said to Khuda, "Of what use is it that this woman should sit in the jungle crying, crying for ever, 'Majnun, Majnun; I want Majnun,' and eating and drinking nothing?

Who acts: last angel, use, woman, jungle, I · What happens: come, throw, say, be, sit, cry · To what, where: powder, Khuda, jungle, Majnun, nothing · 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 (last angel, use, woman, jungle), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 angel	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 angel	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 angel	det
4	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 come	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 angel	acl:relcl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 fakir	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fakir	det
10	fakir	fakir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thrown	cc
12	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 come	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 powder	det
14	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thrown	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thrown	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 angel	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Khuda	case
20	Khuda	Khuda	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 what	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 what	punct
23	Of	of	ADP	_	24 what	case
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 said	parataxis
25	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 what	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 what	cop
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 what	nsubj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 sit	mark
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 woman	det
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sit	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 sit	aux
32	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 jungle	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 jungle	det
35	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sit	obl
36	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 jungle	acl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 crying	punct
38	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 sit	advcl
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 ever	case
40	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 crying	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Majnun	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 Majnun	punct
43	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 crying	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Majnun	punct
45	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Majnun	conj
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 want	punct
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 want	nsubj
48	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
49	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 want	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 want	punct
51	'	'	PUNCT	_	48 want	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 eating	cc
53	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 said	ccomp
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 drinking	cc
55	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	53 eating	conj
56	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	55 drinking	obj
57	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the last angel				as a fakir	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	participle	the last angel not said here	the powder			at Laili	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent powder=Theme at she=Destination
3	say speech: ask	past			Khuda		at the last angel	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to khuda=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	use					tree rules
5	sit in a quote	should	this woman			the jungle		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in jungle=Location
6	cry speech: express in a quote	gerund	the jungle not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cry speech: express in a quote	gerund	this woman not said here	Majnun and Majnun				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for ever=Recipient
8	want in a quote	present	I	Majnun				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot majnun=Theme
9	eat in a quote	gerund						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	drink in a quote	gerund		nothing				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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