Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 20
But the jogi refused to tread the halls of a king, saying that his dwelling was the open air, and that if his Majesty wished to see him he must come himself and bring his wife to the place.
Who acts: jogi, dwelling, Majesty, News · What happens: refuse, not tread, say, be, wish, see · To what, where: halls, open air, News, wife, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (jogi, dwelling, Majesty, News), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 refused | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jogi | det |
| 3 | jogi | jogi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 tread | mark |
| 6 | tread | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 refused | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 halls | det |
| 8 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tread | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 halls | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saying | punct |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 tread | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 air | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 air | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 air | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 air | det |
| 19 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 air | amod |
| 20 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wished | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wished | cc |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 wished | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 wished | mark |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 wished | nsubj |
| 27 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refused | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wished | xcomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 see | obj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 come | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 come | aux |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 see | ccomp |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 come | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bring | cc |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 come | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 wife | nmod:poss |
| 38 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 place | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 place | det |
| 41 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the jogi | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not tread | to-infinitive | the jogi not said here | the halls of a king | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hall=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the jogi not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | News's dwelling | the open air | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wish a condition, not said to happen | past | News's Majesty | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | News's Majesty not said here | News | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come | must | News | News | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | ||||
| 8 | bring | infinitive | News not said here | News's wife | the place | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to place=Destination |
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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