Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 56
When two traders discuss the price of an article in the presence of a purchaser, they use a riddling sort of language.
Who acts: two traders, traders · What happens: discuss, use, riddle, sort · To what, where: price, riddling sort, language
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 (two traders, traders), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 discuss | mark |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 traders | nummod |
| 3 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 discuss | nsubj |
| 4 | discuss | discuss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 use | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 price | det |
| 6 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 discuss | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 article | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 article | det |
| 9 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 price | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 presence | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 presence | det |
| 12 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 article | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 purchaser | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 purchaser | det |
| 15 | purchaser | purchaser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 presence | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 discuss | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 use | nsubj |
| 18 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sort | det |
| 20 | riddling | riddle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 sort | amod |
| 21 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 use | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 language | case |
| 23 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sort | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discuss speech: other | present | two traders | the price of a article in the presence of a purchaser | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use | present | traders = trader | a riddling sort of language | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient | ||||
| 3 | riddle | gerund | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sort | language | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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