Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 75

And the Bodisat spake openly, and said, "O great king! be it thou, or be it any other, whoever talks beyond measure meets with some mishap like this."

Who acts: Bodisat spake, great king, whoever, measure · What happens: say, be, talk, meet · To what, where: thou, spake · 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 (Bodisat spake, great king, whoever, measure), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spake	det
3	Bodisat	Bodisat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spake	compound
4	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
5	openly	openly	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 king	punct
11	O	o	INTJ	_	13 king	discourse
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 king	amod
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thou	nsubj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 king	punct
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 thou	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 be	obj
17	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 said	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 it	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 it	cc
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 it	cop
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thou	conj
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 it	obj
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 any	fixed
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 talks	punct
25	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 talks	nsubj
26	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thou	parataxis
27	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	29 meets	mark
28	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meets	nsubj
29	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 talks	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 mishap	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 mishap	det
32	mishap	mishap	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meets	obl
33	like	like	ADP	_	34 this	case
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 mishap	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	the Bodisat spake		openly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	infinitive	great king	thou		tree rules
3	is a in a quote	infinitive	great king not said here	spake = speak		tree rules
4	talk in a quote	present	whoever			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	meet in a quote	present	measure		with some mishap like this	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mishap=Co-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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