Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 1
So he made over the kingdom to his ministers, and mounted his chariot; and taking only his charioteer, left the city in disguise.
Who acts: he, taking · What happens: make, mount, take, leave · To what, where: kingdom, chariot, charioteer, city, disguise
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, taking), 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 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 kingdom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kingdom | det |
| 6 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ministers | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mounted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mounted | cc |
| 12 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 14 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mounted | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 taking | cc |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 left | csubj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 charioteer | advmod |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 charioteer | nmod:poss |
| 20 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taking | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taking | punct |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 city | det |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 disguise | case |
| 26 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | he | the kingdom | to his ministers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | mount | past | he not said here | his chariot | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | his charioteer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charioteer=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | taking | the city | disguise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent city=Theme in disguise=Location |
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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