Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 5
While I was blaming my jihva, the thief Jihva suddenly flung herself at my feet.
Who acts: I, thief · What happens: blame, fling · To what, where: jihva, thief, feet
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 (I, thief), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 blaming | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 blaming | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blaming | aux |
| 4 | blaming | blame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 flung | advcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 jihva | nmod:poss |
| 6 | jihva | jihva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blaming | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 blaming | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thief | det |
| 9 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flung | nsubj |
| 10 | Jihva | Jihva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thief | appos |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 flung | advmod |
| 12 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 flung | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flung | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | past · progressive | I | my jihva | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jihva=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | the thief | thief | my feet | suddenly property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination |
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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