Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 68
He, like the tiger-king, walked round him thrice, and prostrating himself before him spoke thus: "Oh, my life-giver, my father, for so I must call you, as you have given me another birth.
Who acts: Gangazara, prostrating, you · What happens: walk, prostrate, speak, call, give · To what, where: Gangazara, life giver, you, birth, prostrating · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gangazara, prostrating, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 5 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 tiger | punct |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 He | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 walked | obl |
| 12 | thrice | thrice | ADV | _ | 9 walked | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spoke | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spoke | cc |
| 15 | prostrating | prostrate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 spoke | csubj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 prostrating | obj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 prostrating | obl |
| 19 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 walked | parataxis |
| 20 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 19 spoke | advmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 giver | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 giver | punct |
| 23 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 28 giver | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Oh | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 giver | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 giver | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 life | punct |
| 28 | giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spoke | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 father | punct |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 giver | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 call | punct |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 call | mark |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 call | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 call | nsubj |
| 36 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 call | aux |
| 37 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 spoke | advcl |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 call | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 given | punct |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 given | mark |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 given | nsubj |
| 42 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 given | aux |
| 43 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 call | advcl |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 given | iobj |
| 45 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 birth | det |
| 46 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 given | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Gangazara | round king; thrice property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | prostrate | gerund | Gangazara | before Gangazara | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | prostrating | my life giver and my father | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | call in a quote | must | prostrating | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | present · perfect | you | another birth | prostrating | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient birth=Theme |
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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