Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 60
Gangazara assured them of safety, and stopped them.
Who acts: Gangazara · What happens: assure, stop · To what, where: people
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 (Gangazara), 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 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 assured | nsubj |
| 2 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 assured | iobj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 safety | case |
| 5 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 assured | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stopped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stopped | cc |
| 8 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 assured | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stopped | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | past | Gangazara | people | of safety | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of safety=Topic | |||
| 2 | stop | past | Gangazara not said here | people | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality |
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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