Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 75
So he thought to himself, "Sure this is the guardian deity of the field, and I have not ever worshipped it.
Who acts: labour, this · What happens: think, be, not worshipped · To what, where: labour, guardian deity, field · 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 (labour, this), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 deity | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 deity | punct |
| 8 | Sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 13 deity | discourse |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 deity | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 deity | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 deity | det |
| 12 | guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deity | amod |
| 13 | deity | deity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 field | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 field | det |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deity | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 worshipped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 worshipped | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 worshipped | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 worshipped | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 worshipped | advmod |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 worshipped | advmod |
| 23 | worshipped | worshipped | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 worshipped | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | labour | labour | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | the guardian deity | of the field | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not worshipped in a quote | present | labour | field | ever | tree rules |
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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