Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 14
They, in obedience to their king's order, continued to supply him with provisions and water.
Who acts: king · What happens: continue, supply, order · To what, where: obedience, Gangazara
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 obedience | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 obedience | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 obedience | case |
| 4 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 order | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 king | nmod:poss |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 order | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obedience | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 obedience | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 supply | mark |
| 13 | supply | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 continued | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 supply | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 provisions | case |
| 16 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 supply | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 water | cc |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 provisions | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obedience | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | participle | obedience to king's king's order not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | supply | to-infinitive | Gangazara | with provisions and water | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with provision=Theme | ||||
| 3 | order | king's king | nom order «communication transitive»: 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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