Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 62

For who else by a single word could thus command vast armies of tigers and serpents, said some among the people. "

What happens: command, say · To what, where: vast armies, some · 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: 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 who	case
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 command	nsubj
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 who	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 word	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 who	obl
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 command	aux
9	thus	thus	ADV	_	10 command	advmod
10	command	command	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 armies	amod
12	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 command	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 tigers	case
14	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 armies	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 serpents	cc
16	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tigers	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 command	parataxis
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 said	obj
20	among	among	ADP	_	22 people	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 said	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 command	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 command	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	command	could		vast armies of tigers and serpents				thus property	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent army=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past		some				among the people	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent some=Topic

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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