Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 101
Then Sarkap vowed a solemn vow never to play for another's head; and after that he took a fresh mango branch, and the new-born babe, and placing them on a golden dish gave them to Rasalu.
Who acts: Sarkap, Dhol, placing · What happens: vow, not play, take, bear, place, give · To what, where: solemn vow, fresh mango branch, children, golden dish
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sarkap, Dhol, placing), 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 vowed | advmod |
| 2 | Sarkap | Sarkap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 vowed | nsubj |
| 3 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 vow | det |
| 5 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 vow | amod |
| 6 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vowed | obj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 play | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 play | mark |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 vowed | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 another | case |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 play | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 took | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 after | fixed |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 vowed | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 branch | det |
| 21 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 branch | amod |
| 22 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 branch | compound |
| 23 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 babe | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 babe | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 babe | det |
| 27 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 born | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 new | punct |
| 29 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 babe | amod |
| 30 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gave | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 gave | cc |
| 33 | placing | place | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 gave | csubj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 placing | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 dish | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 dish | det |
| 37 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 dish | amod |
| 38 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 placing | obl |
| 39 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 gave | iobj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 Rasalu | case |
| 42 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 gave | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | past | Sarkap | a solemn vow | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not play | to-infinitive | Sarkap not said here | for another's head | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for head=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Dhol | a fresh mango branch | the born babe obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | |||
| 4 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | place | gerund | children = child | a golden dish | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on dish=Destination | ||||
| 6 | give | past | placing | children = child | to Rasalu | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to rasalu=Recipient |
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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