Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 106
"Oh! son who ne'er gladdened mine eyes, Let the cloud of thy going arise, Dim the sunlight and darken the day; For the mother whose son is away Is as dust!"
Who acts: son, thy · What happens: gladden, let, go, arise, dim, darken · To what, where: horses, cloud, sunlight
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 (son, thy), 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 son | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 son | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arise | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 Let | nsubj |
| 6 | ne'er | ne'er | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 7 | gladdened | gladden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 eyes | amod |
| 8 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gladdened | obj |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Let | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 11 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 son | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cloud | det |
| 13 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Let | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 going | mark |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 going | nsubj |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 cloud | acl |
| 17 | arise | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Dim | punct |
| 19 | Dim | dim | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 arise | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sunlight | det |
| 21 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Dim | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 darken | cc |
| 23 | darken | darken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Dim | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 darken | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 away | punct |
| 27 | For | for | ADP | _ | 29 mother | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mother | det |
| 29 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 away | obl |
| 30 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 31 son | nmod:poss |
| 31 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 away | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 away | cop |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 dust | advmod |
| 34 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 dust | cop |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 dust | case |
| 36 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arise | obl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 arise | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 arise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gladden in a quote | participle | horses = horse | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus my=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | son | the cloud | ne'er gladdened eyes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | gerund | thy | the cloud not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arise in a quote | present | son | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dim in a quote | infinitive | the sunlight | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient | |||||
| 6 | darken in a quote | present | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | son | for the mother; away property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | as dust | 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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