Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 66

The future Buddha thought to himself, "Long expecting, wishing to admonish the king, have I sought for some means of doing so.

Who acts: future Buddha, Long expecting, some · What happens: think, wish, admonish, seek, mean, do · To what, where: Buddha, king, Long expecting · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (future Buddha, Long expecting, some), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Buddha	det
2	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Buddha	amod
3	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 thought	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 expecting	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 expecting	punct
9	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 expecting	amod
10	expecting	expecting	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sought	nsubj:pass
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wishing	punct
12	wishing	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 expecting	acl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 admonish	mark
14	admonish	admonish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wishing	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 admonish	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wishing	punct
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sought	aux
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sought	nsubj
20	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	ccomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 some	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 means	nsubj
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sought	parataxis
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 doing	mark
25	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 means	ccomp
26	so	so	ADV	_	25 doing	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the future Buddha		Buddha	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wish in a quote	gerund	Long expecting not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	admonish not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Long expecting not said here		the king	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
4	seek in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Long expecting		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	mean in a quote	present	some			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do in a quote	gerund				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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