Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 134
Manikkasari agreed to do so, and meanwhile asked his friend to rest himself for a while to have his bath and meals; and Gangazara, who was very observant of his religious ceremonies, went direct to the river to bathe.
Who acts: Manikkasari, Gangazara · What happens: agree, do, ask, rest, have, be · To what, where: friend, Manikkasari, bath, observant, river
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 (Manikkasari, Gangazara), 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 | Manikkasari | Manikkasari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | xcomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 8 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 9 asked | advmod |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 rest | mark |
| 13 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | xcomp |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 rest | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 while | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 while | det |
| 17 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rest | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rest | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bath | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 meals | cc |
| 23 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bath | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 Gangazara | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Gangazara | cc |
| 26 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 went | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 observant | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 observant | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 observant | cop |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 observant | advmod |
| 31 | observant | observant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Gangazara | appos |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 ceremonies | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 ceremonies | nmod:poss |
| 34 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ceremonies | amod |
| 35 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 observant | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | parataxis |
| 38 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 went | xcomp |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 river | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 river | det |
| 41 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 bathe | mark |
| 43 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 went | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Manikkasari | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Manikkasari not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Manikkasari not said here | Manikkasari's friend | meanwhile property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | rest not said to happen | to-infinitive | Manikkasari not said here | Manikkasari | while | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | |||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | Manikkasari not said here | Manikkasari's bath and meals | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | Gangazara | observant | of Manikkasari's religious ceremonies | tree rules | |||
| 7 | go | past | Gangazara | the river | direct property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | bathe | to-infinitive | Gangazara not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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