Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 54
I am his sworn enemy, and I eat not of his salt!"
Who acts: I · What happens: swear, be, not eat · To what, where: sworn enemy, salt
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 enemy | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enemy | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 enemy | amod |
| 5 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eat | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enemy | acl:relcl |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 eat | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 salt | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 salt | nmod:poss |
| 13 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 enemy | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 enemy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | participle | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | Raja's sworn enemy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not eat | present | I | Raja's salt | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=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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