Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 68
Thus said the Soothsayer's son, and the following reply came from the king of the tigers: "Why should this base king imprison your honour, believing the mere word of a goldsmith that your honour killed his father?
Who acts: following reply, base king, honour, your · What happens: say, follow, come, imprison, believe, kill · To what, where: son, honour, mere word, goldsmith · 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: who acts (following reply, base king, honour, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Soothsayer | det |
| 4 | Soothsayer | Soothsayer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Soothsayer | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reply | det |
| 10 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 reply | amod |
| 11 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tigers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tigers | det |
| 18 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 king | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 imprison | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 imprison | punct |
| 21 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 imprison | advmod |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 imprison | aux |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 king | det |
| 24 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 king | compound |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 imprison | nsubj |
| 26 | imprison | imprison | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | parataxis |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 honour | nmod:poss |
| 28 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 imprison | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 believing | punct |
| 30 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 imprison | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 word | det |
| 32 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 word | amod |
| 33 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 believing | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 goldsmith | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 goldsmith | det |
| 36 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 word | nmod |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 killed | obj |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 honour | nmod:poss |
| 39 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 killed | nsubj |
| 40 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 goldsmith | acl:relcl |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 father | nmod:poss |
| 42 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 killed | obj |
| 43 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Soothsayer's son | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | the following reply | from the king of the tigers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | imprison in a quote | should | this base king | your honour | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Theme | ||||
| 5 | believe in a quote | gerund | this base king not said here | the mere word of a goldsmith | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | kill in a quote | past | your honour | a goldsmith | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer father=Result | ||||
| 7 | honour in a quote | your | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | word in a quote | a goldsmith | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | honour in a quote | your | nom honour «state 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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