Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 9
The rat raja entered first to condole with his protector on his misfortune, and undertook to supply his protector with provisions. "
Who acts: rat raja · What happens: enter, condole, undertake, supply · To what, where: misfortune, protector
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 (rat raja), 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 | 3 raja | det |
| 2 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raja | compound |
| 3 | raja | raja | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 entered | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 condole | mark |
| 7 | condole | condole | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 entered | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 protector | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 protector | nmod:poss |
| 10 | protector | protector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 condole | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 misfortune | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 misfortune | nmod:poss |
| 13 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 condole | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 undertook | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 undertook | cc |
| 16 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 supply | mark |
| 18 | supply | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 undertook | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 protector | nmod:poss |
| 20 | protector | protector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 supply | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 provisions | case |
| 22 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 supply | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the rat raja | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | condole | to-infinitive | the rat raja not said here | raja's misfortune | with raja's protector | tree rules | |||
| 3 | undertake | past | the rat raja not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | supply | to-infinitive | the rat raja not said here | raja's protector | with provisions | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent protector=Recipient with provision=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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