Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 15
He disguised himself as a jogi, and sitting down by a tree near the palace, pretended to be absorbed in worship.
Who acts: prince · What happens: disguise, sit down, pretend, absorb · To what, where: prince, palace, worship
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 disguised | nsubj |
| 2 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 disguised | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 jogi | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 jogi | det |
| 6 | jogi | jogi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 disguised | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sitting | cc |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 disguised | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 sitting | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pretended | punct |
| 18 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 disguised | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 absorbed | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 absorbed | aux:pass |
| 21 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 pretended | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 worship | case |
| 23 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 absorbed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 disguised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | past | prince | prince | as a jogi | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination | |||
| 2 | sit down | gerund | prince not said here | the palace | by a tree; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tree=Location | |||
| 3 | pretend | past | prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | absorb | to-infinitive · passive | prince not said here | worship | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP» |
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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