Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 102
"Yea! mother am I, though I weep, So hold this word sure,-- Go, reign king of all men, but keep Thy heart good and pure!"
Who acts: Queen · What happens: be, weep, hold, reign, keep · To what, where: Queen, word, king, heart
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 (Queen), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 2 | Yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 4 mother | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yea | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 I | cop |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 mother | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 weep | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 weep | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 weep | nsubj |
| 10 | weep | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mother | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hold | punct |
| 12 | So | so | ADV | _ | 13 hold | advmod |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 weep | ccomp |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 word | det |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | obj |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hold | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Go | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 Go | punct |
| 19 | Go | Go | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | vocative |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reign | punct |
| 21 | reign | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 weep | conj |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reign | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 men | det |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 king | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 keep | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 keep | cc |
| 28 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 weep | conj |
| 29 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 heart | nmod:poss |
| 30 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 keep | obj |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 keep | xcomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 pure | cc |
| 33 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 good | conj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | weep in a quote | present | Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold in a quote | infinitive | Queen not said here | this word | Go vocative; sure property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 4 | reign in a quote | present | Queen not said here | king of all men | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | infinitive | Queen not said here | Thy heart | good property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
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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