Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 10
DEATH ON THE SEA-SHORE'; which means that I must die away from home, far from friends and relatives on a sea-coast.
Who acts: DEATH, I · What happens: mean, die away · To what, where: home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DEATH, I), 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 | DEATH | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 2 | ON | on | ADP | _ | 6 SHORE | case |
| 3 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 SHORE | det |
| 4 | SEA | SEA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 SHORE | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 SEA | punct |
| 6 | SHORE | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 DEATH | nmod |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 SHORE | punct |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 means | nsubj |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 die | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 die | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 die | aux |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 means | ccomp |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 die | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 die | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 friends | punct |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 friends | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 friends | case |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 die | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 relatives | cc |
| 23 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 friends | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 coast | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 coast | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 coast | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 sea | punct |
| 28 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 friends | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | DEATH on the SEA SHORE | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | die away | must | I | home | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from home=Causer |
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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