Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 37
I must die on a sea coast, and not by a tiger."
Who acts: I · What happens: die · To what, where: 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), 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 die | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 die | aux |
| 3 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 coast | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coast | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coast | compound |
| 7 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 die | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tiger | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tiger | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 tiger | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 tiger | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tiger | det |
| 13 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 die | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | must | I | a sea coast | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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