Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 51
Two young hamsas, or wild ducks, who came to feed there, made friends with him.
Who acts: wild ducks, Two young hamsas · What happens: come, feed, make · To what, where: friends
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 (wild ducks, Two young hamsas), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hamsas | nummod |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hamsas | amod |
| 3 | hamsas | hamsa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ducks | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 ducks | cc |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ducks | amod |
| 7 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hamsas | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ducks | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 feed | mark |
| 12 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | xcomp |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 feed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hamsas | punct |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | wild ducks | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feed | to-infinitive | wild ducks not said here | there | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Two young hamsas | friends | with Buddha | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |
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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