Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 15
While passing that desert he had to journey for a couple of days through a sandy plain, with no signs of life or vegetation.
Who acts: DEATH · What happens: pass, have, sign · To what, where: desert, journey, sandy plain, life
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), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 2 passing | mark |
| 2 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 had | advcl |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 desert | det |
| 4 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passing | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 journey | mark |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 couple | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 couple | det |
| 11 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 journey | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 couple | nmod |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 plain | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 plain | det |
| 16 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 plain | amod |
| 17 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 signs | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 signs | case |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 signs | det |
| 21 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 plain | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 signs | nmod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 vegetation | cc |
| 25 | vegetation | vegetation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 life | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | DEATH not said here | that desert | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme desert=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | have | past | DEATH | journey | a sandy plain and no signs of life or vegetation | for a couple of days | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Patient | ||
| 3 | sign | life or vegetation | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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