Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 90
After a long, long time the serpent appeared, but only with its head out of the opening of the ant-hill, and spoke to the Brahman: "'Tis greed that brings you here, and makes you even forget the loss of your son.
Who acts: serpent, Tis greed · What happens: appear, speak, bring, make, forget · To what, where: Tis greed, you, loss · 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 (serpent, Tis greed), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 serpent | det |
| 8 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | nsubj |
| 9 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 head | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 head | cc |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 head | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | obl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 opening | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 opening | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 opening | det |
| 19 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hill | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hill | det |
| 22 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hill | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ant | punct |
| 24 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 opening | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spoke | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spoke | cc |
| 27 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appeared | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Brahman | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Brahman | det |
| 30 | Brahman | brahman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spoke | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 greed | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 greed | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 greed | punct |
| 34 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 greed | compound |
| 35 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | obl |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 brings | nsubj |
| 37 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 greed | acl:relcl |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 brings | obj |
| 39 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 brings | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 makes | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 makes | cc |
| 42 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 appeared | conj |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 makes | obj |
| 44 | even | even | ADV | _ | 45 forget | advmod |
| 45 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 makes | advcl |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 loss | det |
| 47 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 forget | obj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 son | case |
| 49 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 son | nmod:poss |
| 50 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 loss | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the serpent | Tis greed | time | with Serpent's head out the opening of the ant hill | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the serpent not said here | to the Brahman | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to brahman=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | present | Tis greed | you | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | present | the serpent not said here | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | ||||
| 5 | forget in a quote | present | the serpent not said here | the loss of your son | 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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