Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 21
I must survive this calamity to find my death on some sea-coast."
Who acts: I, my · What happens: survive, find, die · To what, where: calamity, death, sea coast
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 survive | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 survive | aux |
| 3 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 calamity | det |
| 5 | calamity | calamity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 survive | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 calamity | acl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 death | nmod:poss |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 coast | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 coast | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coast | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sea | punct |
| 14 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 survive | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 survive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | must | I | this calamity | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme calamity=Circumstance | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | I not said here | my death | some sea coast | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Topic | |||
| 3 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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