Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 45
They had lost all they had, except their loin-cloth, and still the robbers were not satisfied, but ordered them to dance.
Who acts: traders, robbers · What happens: lose, have, not be, order, dance · To what, where: all, traders
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 (traders, robbers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 lost | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cloth | punct |
| 8 | except | except | ADP | _ | 12 cloth | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cloth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | loin | loin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cloth | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 loin | punct |
| 12 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 satisfied | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 satisfied | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 satisfied | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 robbers | det |
| 17 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 satisfied | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 satisfied | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 satisfied | advmod |
| 20 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lost | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ordered | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 ordered | cc |
| 23 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | parataxis |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ordered | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 dance | mark |
| 26 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ordered | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | traders = trader | all | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | past | traders = trader | except traders's loin cloth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | the robbers | still | satisfied property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | order | past | traders = trader | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | dance not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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