Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 41
Some whispered that he must be a divine being.
Who acts: Some, man · What happens: whisper, be · To what, where: divine being · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Some, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:877): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 whispered | nsubj |
| 2 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 being | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 being | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 being | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 being | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 being | det |
| 8 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 being | amod |
| 9 | being | being | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whispered | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | Some | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | must | man | a divine being | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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