Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 60
"That is the wicked Raja who killed you to seize me, just as I said he would."
Who acts: That, wicked Raja, Majnun · What happens: be, kill, seize, say · To what, where: wicked Raja, you, Majnun · 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 (That, wicked Raja, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Raja | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Raja | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Raja | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Raja | det |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Raja | amod |
| 6 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 killed | nsubj |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Raja | acl:relcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 killed | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 seize | mark |
| 11 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 killed | advcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 seize | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 said | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seize | advcl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 would | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Raja | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Raja | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the wicked Raja | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | past | the wicked Raja | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seize in a quote | to-infinitive | the wicked Raja not said here | Majnun | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | 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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