Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 92
Your son struck me in youthful ignorance, and I have bitten him to death.
Who acts: son, I · What happens: strike, bite · To what, where: me, youthful ignorance, son
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 (son, I), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ignorance | case |
| 6 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ignorance | amod |
| 7 | ignorance | ignorance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bitten | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bitten | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bitten | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bitten | aux |
| 12 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 struck | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bitten | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bitten | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Your son | me | youthful ignorance | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument | |||
| 2 | bite | present · perfect | I | son | to death result | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=Result |
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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