Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 19
Then he thought, "I will make way for the most righteous."
Who acts: age · What happens: think, make · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (age), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 make | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 righteous | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 righteous | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 righteous | advmod |
| 13 | righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | age | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | future | age | way | for the righteous | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent way=Product for righteous=Asset |
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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