Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 11
Then, bidding adieu to the headless corpse, he went on his way to play chaupur with the King.
Who acts: corpse · What happens: bid, go, play · To what, where: adieu, way, chaupur
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 (corpse), 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 | 11 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 4 | adieu | adieu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bidding | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 corpse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 corpse | det |
| 7 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 corpse | amod |
| 8 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bidding | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bidding | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 play | mark |
| 16 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | advcl |
| 17 | chaupur | chaupur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 play | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 play | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | gerund | corpse not said here | adieu | to the headless corpse | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | corpse | corpse's way | then | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | corpse not said here | chaupur | with the King | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with king=Co-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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