Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 117
"Go," said he, "and may the great God aid your efforts.
Who acts: house, great God · What happens: go, say, aid · To what, where: efforts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, great God), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 he | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 he | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 aid | cc |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 aid | aux |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 God | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 God | amod |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 aid | nsubj |
| 14 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 16 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 aid | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | house | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | aid in a quote | may | the great God | your efforts | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Beneficiary |
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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