Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 118
At nightfall he arrived at some place, where a man met him, and invited him to lodge at his house.
Who acts: adieu, man · What happens: arrive, meet, invite, lodge · To what, where: nightfall, adieu, house
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 (adieu, man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 nightfall | case |
| 2 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 met | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 met | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | nsubj |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 met | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 invited | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 invited | cc |
| 16 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 invited | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 lodge | mark |
| 19 | lodge | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 invited | xcomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lodge | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | adieu | nightfall | at some place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet | past | a man | adieu | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | invite | past | adieu not said here | adieu | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lodge not said to happen | to-infinitive | adieu not said here | adieu's house | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
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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