Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 32
Then Rasalu said, "Separate the millet seed from the sand."
Who acts: Rasalu · What happens: say, separate · To what, where: millet seed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rasalu), 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 said | advmod |
| 2 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Separate | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Separate | punct |
| 6 | Separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seed | det |
| 8 | millet | millet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seed | compound |
| 9 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Separate | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 sand | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sand | det |
| 12 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Separate | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Separate | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Separate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Rasalu | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | separate in a quote | infinitive | the millet seed | from the sand | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent seed=Patient from sand=Co-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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