Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 21
Then the chorister of the king of Kosala, proclaiming his king's wickedness as goodness, uttered the First Stanza:
Who acts: chorister · What happens: proclaim, utter · To what, where: wickedness, First Stanza
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 (chorister), 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 chorister | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chorister | det |
| 3 | chorister | chorister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 uttered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chorister | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Kosala | case |
| 8 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 proclaiming | punct |
| 10 | proclaiming | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 chorister | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 king | nmod:poss |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wickedness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 proclaiming | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 goodness | case |
| 16 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 proclaiming | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chorister | punct |
| 18 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Stanza | det |
| 20 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 Stanza | amod |
| 21 | Stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 uttered | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | gerund | the chorister of the king of Kosala not said here | king's king's wickedness | as goodness | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent wickedness=Theme as goodness=Attribute | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | the chorister of the king of Kosala | the First Stanza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic |
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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