Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 19
The deaths by snake-bite and tigers shall increase a hundredfold from this day, and day by day it shall continue to increase till your release.
Who acts: deaths, hundredfold, snake bite · What happens: increase, continue, die · To what, where: hundredfold
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 (deaths, hundredfold, snake bite), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 deaths | det |
| 2 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 increase | nsubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 bite | case |
| 4 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bite | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 snake | punct |
| 6 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 deaths | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tigers | cc |
| 8 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bite | conj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 increase | aux |
| 10 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundredfold | det |
| 12 | hundredfold | hundredfold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 increase | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 increase | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 continue | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 continue | cc |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 continue | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | nmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 continue | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 continue | aux |
| 23 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 increase | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 increase | mark |
| 25 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 continue | xcomp |
| 26 | till | till | ADP | _ | 28 release | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 release | nmod:poss |
| 28 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 increase | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 increase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | shall | the deaths by snake bite and tigers | a hundredfold | day | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer hundredfold=Patient | |||
| 2 | continue | shall | hundredfold | day | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | increase | to-infinitive | hundredfold not said here | till your release | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | die | snake bite and tigers | nom death «event intransitive»: by=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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