Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 28
Some of them wished to kill it, but others did not. "
Who acts: Some, others · What happens: wish, kill, not do · To what, where: folk
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 (Some, others), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 kill | mark |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wished | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kill | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 did | cc |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wished | advcl |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 did | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | Some | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | Some not said here | folk | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not do | past | others | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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