Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 48
Now Chumman Basa had come quite near, and seemed very pleasant, so thought Prince Majnun; but when he was speaking to Majnun, he drew his scimitar and cut off the prince's head at one blow.
Who acts: Chumman · What happens: come, seem, think, speak, draw, cut off · To what, where: Prince, Majnun, scimitar, head, one blow · 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 (Chumman), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | Chumman | Chumman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | Basa | Basa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Chumman | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 near | advmod |
| 7 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seemed | cc |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | parataxis |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 pleasant | advmod |
| 12 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 thought | advmod |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seemed | conj |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obj |
| 17 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Prince | flat |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 drew | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 drew | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 speaking | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 speaking | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 speaking | aux |
| 23 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 drew | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Majnun | case |
| 25 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 speaking | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 speaking | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 drew | nsubj |
| 28 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | parataxis |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 scimitar | nmod:poss |
| 30 | scimitar | scimitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drew | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cut | cc |
| 32 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 drew | conj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 37 head | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 prince | det |
| 35 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 head | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 prince | case |
| 37 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cut | obl |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 blow | case |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 blow | nummod |
| 40 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cut | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | Chumman | now | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | pleasant property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Prince | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | Chumman | Majnun | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to majnun=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | draw | past | Chumman | Chumman's scimitar | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scimitar=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cut off | participle | Chumman not said here | the prince's head | one blow | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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