Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 105
I have secured enough merit now by my religious observances.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: secure, merit, observe
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 (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 secured | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 secured | aux |
| 3 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 merit | advmod |
| 5 | merit | merit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 secured | ccomp |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 merit | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 observances | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 observances | nmod:poss |
| 9 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 observances | amod |
| 10 | observances | observance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 merit | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 secured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | present · perfect | I | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | merit | present | I not said here | now | by my religious observances; enough property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | observe | my | nom observance «act transitive»: poss=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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