Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 53
Now when the slaves brought the trays to Raja Rasalu, he rose up haughtily, saying, "Go, tell your master I have nought to do with him in friendship.
Who acts: slaves, Raja · What happens: bring, rise up, say, go, tell, have · To what, where: trays, Raja, master, nought, friendship · 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 (slaves, Raja), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 brought | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 brought | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 slaves | det |
| 4 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trays | det |
| 7 | trays | tray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Raja | case |
| 9 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 10 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Raja | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 rose | compound:prt |
| 15 | haughtily | haughtily | ADV | _ | 13 rose | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 rose | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 20 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tell | punct |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 Go | conj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 master | nmod:poss |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tell | obj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 tell | ccomp |
| 27 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 26 have | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 do | mark |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 nought | acl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 do | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 friendship | case |
| 33 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 do | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the slaves | the trays | Raja | now | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tray=Theme to raja=Destination | ||
| 2 | rise up | past | Raja | haughtily property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Raja not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | your master | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent master=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | Raja | nought | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nought=Patient | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Raja not said here | nought not said here | friendship | with Raja | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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