Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 97
Well," said Khuda, "you may do so; but tell her that she must not speak to Majnun if he is afraid of her when he sees her; and that if he is afraid when he sees her, she will become a little white dog the next day.
Who acts: Khuda, you, Majnun · What happens: say, do, tell, not speak, be, see · To what, where: Khuda, Majnun, little white dog · 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 (Khuda, you, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Khuda | Khuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 do | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 tell | cc |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 speak | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 speak | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 speak | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 speak | advmod |
| 20 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tell | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Majnun | case |
| 22 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 speak | obl |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 afraid | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 afraid | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 afraid | cop |
| 26 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 speak | advcl |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 sees | mark |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sees | nmod:poss |
| 29 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 31 sees | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sees | nsubj |
| 31 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 afraid | ccomp |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sees | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 become | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 become | cc |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 afraid | mark |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 afraid | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 afraid | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 afraid | cop |
| 39 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 become | advcl |
| 40 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 42 sees | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 sees | nsubj |
| 42 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 afraid | ccomp |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 sees | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 afraid | punct |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 become | nsubj |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 become | aux |
| 47 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 dog | det |
| 49 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 dog | amod |
| 50 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 dog | amod |
| 51 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 become | xcomp |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 day | det |
| 53 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 day | amod |
| 54 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 become | obl:unmarked |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Khuda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | may | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Khuda | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not speak speech: other | must | Khuda | Majnun | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to majnun=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | Majnun | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | present | Majnun | Khuda | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | Majnun | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | see | present | Majnun | Khuda | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | become | future | Khuda | a little white dog | day | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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