Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 45
His ten years' imprisonment in the deep cell underground had given a sort of lustre to his body.
Who acts: ten years · What happens: give, imprison, sort · To what, where: imprisonment, deep cell, lustre
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 (ten years), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 years | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 imprisonment | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 years | case |
| 5 | imprisonment | imprisonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cell | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cell | det |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cell | amod |
| 9 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 imprisonment | nmod |
| 10 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 12 given | advmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sort | det |
| 14 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lustre | case |
| 16 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sort | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | Gangazara's ten years's imprisonment in the deep cell | to Gangazara's body; underground property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient sort=Theme | ||||
| 2 | imprison | Gangazara's ten years | the deep cell | nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place | |||||
| 3 | sort | lustre | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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