Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 55
He cursed the day on which he imprisoned him, blamed himself for having believed the word of a goldsmith, and offered him the hand of his daughter and the whole kingdom, instead of half, as he promised.
Who acts: joy · What happens: curse, imprison, blame, believe, offer, promise · To what, where: Gangazara, joy, word, hand, goldsmith
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 (joy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cursed | nsubj |
| 2 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cursed | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 imprisoned | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 imprisoned | nsubj |
| 8 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 imprisoned | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blamed | punct |
| 11 | blamed | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cursed | parataxis |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 blamed | obj |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 believed | mark |
| 14 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 believed | aux |
| 15 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 blamed | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 word | det |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 believed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 goldsmith | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 goldsmith | det |
| 20 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 word | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 offered | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 offered | cc |
| 23 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cursed | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 offered | iobj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hand | det |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 offered | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 daughter | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 29 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hand | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 kingdom | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 kingdom | det |
| 32 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 kingdom | amod |
| 33 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hand | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 half | punct |
| 35 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 37 half | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 instead | fixed |
| 37 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 23 offered | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 promised | punct |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 promised | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 promised | nsubj |
| 41 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 offered | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cursed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | past | joy | day | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | imprison | past | joy | Gangazara | on the day | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on which=Destination | |||
| 3 | blame | past | joy | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||||
| 4 | believe | gerund · perfect | the word of a goldsmith | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | offer | past | the hand of joy's daughter and the whole kingdom | joy | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal hand=Theme | ||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | past | joy | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | word | a goldsmith | nom word «communication 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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