Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 78
He was caught by the soldiers of the king, and was pardoned by the generous Gangazara, whose voice now reigned supreme.
Who acts: soldiers, generous Gangazara, voice · What happens: catch, pardon, reign · To what, where: goldsmith
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 (soldiers, generous Gangazara, voice), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | aux:pass |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 soldiers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soldiers | det |
| 6 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caught | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soldiers | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pardoned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pardoned | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pardoned | aux:pass |
| 13 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caught | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Gangazara | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Gangazara | det |
| 16 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Gangazara | amod |
| 17 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pardoned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 voice | punct |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 voice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Gangazara | appos |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 reigned | advmod |
| 22 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 voice | acl:relcl |
| 23 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reigned | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | the soldiers of the king | goldsmith | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pardon | past · passive | the generous Gangazara | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reign | past | the generous Gangazara's voice not said here | now | supreme property | tree rules |
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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