Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 76
The serpent-king and tiger-king also promised to observe their oath as long as justice prevailed, and took their leave.
Who acts: serpent king, justice · What happens: promise, observe, prevail, take · To what, where: oath, leave
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 (serpent king, justice), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 2 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 serpent | punct |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 promised | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 king | cc |
| 6 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 tiger | punct |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | conj |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 promised | advmod |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 observe | mark |
| 12 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promised | xcomp |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 oath | nmod:poss |
| 14 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 observe | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 observe | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 prevailed | mark |
| 18 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prevailed | nsubj |
| 19 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 long | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 promised | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 leave | nmod:poss |
| 24 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the serpent king and tiger king | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | observe not said to happen | to-infinitive | the serpent king and tiger king not said here | king's oath | long property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oath=Topic | |||
| 3 | prevail | past | justice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the serpent king and tiger king not said here | king's leave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=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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