Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 3
Now at that time the king of Kosala, Mallika by name, was also ruling his kingdom with righteousness; and when seeking for some fault in himself, he also found no fault-finder in the palace but only heard of his own virtue!
Who acts: Mallika · What happens: rule, seek, find, hear · To what, where: kingdom, fault finder, palace
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 (Mallika), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 ruling | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Now | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Kosala | case |
| 8 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Mallika | punct |
| 10 | Mallika | Mallika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Kosala | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 name | case |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Mallika | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ruling | aux |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 ruling | advmod |
| 16 | ruling | rule | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 found | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 18 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ruling | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 righteousness | case |
| 20 | righteousness | righteousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kingdom | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 seeking | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seeking | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 seeking | advmod |
| 24 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 ruling | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 fault | case |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 fault | det |
| 27 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seeking | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 himself | case |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 seeking | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ruling | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 found | nsubj |
| 32 | also | also | ADV | _ | 33 found | advmod |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 finder | det |
| 35 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 finder | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 fault | punct |
| 37 | finder | finder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 palace | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 palace | det |
| 40 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 finder | nmod |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 heard | cc |
| 42 | only | only | ADV | _ | 43 heard | advmod |
| 43 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 palace | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 virtue | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 virtue | nmod:poss |
| 46 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 virtue | amod |
| 47 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 heard | obl |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past · progressive | Mallika not said here | Mallika's kingdom | now | with righteousness | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||
| 2 | seek | gerund | Mallika not said here | for some fault; in Mallika | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for fault=Theme in himself=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Mallika | no fault finder | the palace | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finder=Topic | |||
| 4 | hear | participle | Mallika not said here | of Mallika's own virtue | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of virtue=Stimulus |
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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