Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 111

"Give me five minutes, my lord!" he pleaded, "in order that I may explain matters to the jackal here, who is somewhat slow in his wits."

Who acts: dinner · What happens: give, plead, explain, matter, be · To what, where: lord, dinner, order, wits · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pleaded	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lord	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lord	nmod:poss
8	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pleaded	nsubj
12	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pleaded	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 pleaded	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 order	case
16	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 matters	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 explain	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 explain	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 explain	aux
20	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 order	acl
21	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pleaded	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 jackal	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 jackal	det
24	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 matters	obl
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 matters	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 slow	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 slow	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 slow	cop
29	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	30 slow	advmod
30	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 matters	parataxis
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 wits	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wits	nmod:poss
33	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 slow	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 slow	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 matters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	infinitive		my lord	dinner		minute		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	plead speech: request	past	dinner						tree rules
3	explain speech: assert in a quote	may	dinner	order not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Topic
4	matter in a quote	present				order; here		to the jackal	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to jackal=Experiencer
5	is in a quote	present				dinner's wits		slow, somewhat property	tree rules

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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