Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 23
He next met with some people fighting about a cat.
Who acts: fellow, people · What happens: meet, fight
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 (fellow, people), 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 met | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 met | advmod |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 met | obl |
| 7 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 people | acl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 cat | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fighting | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | fellow | with some people; next property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with people=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | some people not said here | about a cat | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about cat=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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