Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 39
By-and-by he came upon the Jogi's cow, tall, white, and beautiful, while the Jogi himself, who was king of all the demons, sat milking her day and night, and the milk streamed from her udder, filling the milk-white tank.
Who acts: lad, Jogi, milk · What happens: come, be, sit, milk, stream, fill · To what, where: king, milk, udder, white tank
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, Jogi, milk), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 7 came | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 cow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Jogi | det |
| 10 | Jogi | Jogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Jogi | case |
| 12 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tall | punct |
| 14 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cow | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 white | punct |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tall | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beautiful | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beautiful | cc |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tall | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sat | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 sat | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Jogi | det |
| 23 | Jogi | Jogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 sat | nsubj |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 Jogi | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 king | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 king | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 king | cop |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Jogi | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 demons | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 demons | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 demons | det |
| 32 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 king | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Jogi | punct |
| 34 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 35 | milking | milk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 sat | xcomp |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 day | nmod:poss |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 milking | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 night | cc |
| 39 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 day | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 filling | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 filling | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 milk | det |
| 43 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 filling | nsubj |
| 44 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 milk | acl |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 udder | case |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 udder | nmod:poss |
| 47 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 streamed | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 filling | punct |
| 49 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 tank | det |
| 51 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 white | compound |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 milk | punct |
| 53 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 tank | amod |
| 54 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 filling | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | lad | upon the Jogi's cow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon cow=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Jogi lad | king | of all demons | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sit | past | the Jogi lad | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | milk | gerund | the Jogi lad not said here | day | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | stream | participle | the milk not said here | Jogi's udder | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from udder=Source | ||||
| 6 | fill | gerund | the milk | the white tank | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tank=Patient |
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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