Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 9
Yet the other replied, "In this chariot, O charioteer, sitteth the lord over the kingdom of Kosala, the great king Mallika.
What happens: reply, sit · To what, where: other, lord, kingdom · 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: 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 other | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 replied | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 chariot | punct |
| 7 | In | in | ADP | _ | 9 chariot | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 chariot | det |
| 9 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 charioteer | punct |
| 11 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 12 charioteer | discourse |
| 12 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chariot | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sitteth | punct |
| 14 | sitteth | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 chariot | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lord | det |
| 16 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitteth | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 kingdom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kingdom | det |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lord | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Kosala | case |
| 21 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 kingdom | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 king | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 king | amod |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lord | appos |
| 26 | Mallika | Mallika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 king | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the other | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | present | the lord | the kingdom of Kosala | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme over kingdom=Location |
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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