Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 67
Reply to me, and henceforth desist from your ravages."
Who acts: you, your · What happens: reply, desist, ravage · To what, where: me, ravages
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 (you, your), 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 | Reply | reply | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Reply | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 desist | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 desist | cc |
| 6 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 7 desist | advmod |
| 7 | desist | desist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Reply | parataxis |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 ravages | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ravages | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ravages | ravage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 desist | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Reply | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | desist | present | your ravages | henceforth property | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent from ravage=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ravage | your | nom ravage «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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