Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 43
In return for this kind assistance I pledge my oath to stand by you in all calamities.
Who acts: I · What happens: pledge, stand · To what, where: oath, return, calamities
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 return | case |
| 2 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pledge | obl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 assistance | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 assistance | det |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 assistance | amod |
| 6 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 return | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 pledge | nsubj |
| 8 | pledge | pledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 oath | nmod:poss |
| 10 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pledge | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stand | mark |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pledge | xcomp |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 stand | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 calamities | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 calamities | det |
| 17 | calamities | calamity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stand | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pledge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pledge | present | I | my oath | return for this kind assistance | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent oath=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | I not said here | all calamities | by you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by you=Location |
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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