Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 104
Grant us our request,-- Unloose these chains, and live for ever blest!"
Who acts: you, our · What happens: grant, unloose, live, request · To what, where: request, us, chains
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 (you, our), 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 | Grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Grant | obj |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 request | nmod:poss |
| 4 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Grant | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Unloose | punct |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Unloose | punct |
| 7 | Unloose | unloose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Grant | parataxis |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 chains | det |
| 9 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Unloose | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 live | cc |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Grant | parataxis |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 blest | case |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 blest | advmod |
| 15 | blest | blest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 live | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grant | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | imperative | you not said here | our request | us | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal request=Theme | |||
| 2 | unloose | infinitive | this chains | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | infinitive | for blest | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | request | our | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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