Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 4
The rat raja issued an order at once to that effect to his army.
Who acts: rat raja · What happens: issue · To what, where: order, effect
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 (rat raja), 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 | 3 raja | det |
| 2 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raja | compound |
| 3 | raja | raja | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 raja | acl |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 order | det |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 issued | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 issued | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 effect | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 effect | det |
| 11 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 issued | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 army | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 army | nmod:poss |
| 14 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 effect | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raja | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | participle | the rat raja not said here | a order | that effect to Gangazara's army | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to effect=Recipient |
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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