Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 70
I was the messenger of death sent to deal the blow on his neck.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, send, deal · To what, where: messenger, blow, neck
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 messenger | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 messenger | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 messenger | det |
| 4 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 messenger | nmod |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 messenger | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 deal | mark |
| 9 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 blow | det |
| 11 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deal | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 neck | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 neck | nmod:poss |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blow | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 messenger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | I | the messenger | of death | tree rules | |||
| 2 | send | participle | the messenger not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | deal | to-infinitive | the blow | honour's neck | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
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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