Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 105
Secondly, If a man has a married sister, and visits her in great pomp, she will receive him for the sake of what she can obtain from him; but if he comes to her in poverty, she will frown on him and disown him.
Who acts: man, scrap, Bhagawant · What happens: have, visit, receive, obtain, come, frown · To what, where: married sister, scrap, great pomp, man, poverty, Bhagawant
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, scrap, Bhagawant), 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 | Secondly | secondly | ADV | _ | 6 has | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Secondly | punct |
| 3 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 has | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sister | det |
| 8 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sister | amod |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 visits | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 visits | cc |
| 12 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 has | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 visits | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pomp | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pomp | amod |
| 16 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visits | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 receive | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 receive | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 receive | aux |
| 20 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 visits | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 receive | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 sake | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sake | det |
| 24 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 receive | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 what | case |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 sake | nmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 obtain | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 obtain | aux |
| 29 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 obtain | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 frown | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 frown | cc |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 comes | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 comes | nsubj |
| 36 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 frown | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 comes | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 poverty | case |
| 40 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 comes | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 comes | punct |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 frown | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 frown | aux |
| 44 | frown | frown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 has | parataxis |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 frown | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 disown | cc |
| 48 | disown | disown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 frown | conj |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 disown | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a man | a married sister | secondly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient | |||
| 2 | visit | present | a man not said here | scrap | great pomp | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | receive | future | scrap | man | for the sake | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | obtain | can | scrap | from Bhagawant | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source | ||||
| 5 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | Bhagawant | scrap | poverty | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | frown | future | scrap | on Bhagawant | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | disown | infinitive | scrap not said here | Bhagawant | tree rules |
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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