Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 70
"Verily the tortoise killed himself Whilst uttering his voice; Though he was holding tight the stick, By a word himself he slew.
Who acts: tortoise · What happens: kill, utter, hold, slay · To what, where: Tortoise, voice, stick, word
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 (tortoise), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
| 2 | Verily | verily | ADV | _ | 4 tortoise | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tortoise | det |
| 4 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | nsubj |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 killed | obj |
| 7 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 8 uttering | mark |
| 8 | uttering | utter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 killed | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 voice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 uttering | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 holding | punct |
| 12 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 holding | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 holding | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 holding | aux |
| 15 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 killed | advcl |
| 16 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 18 stick | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stick | det |
| 18 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 holding | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 word | punct |
| 20 | By | by | ADP | _ | 22 word | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 word | det |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 holding | obj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 22 word | appos |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 slew | nsubj |
| 25 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 word | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | past | the tortoise | Tortoise | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other in a quote | gerund | the tortoise not said here | Tortoise's voice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hold in a quote | past · progressive | Tortoise | the stick | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme word=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | slay in a quote | past | Tortoise | a word not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
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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