Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 56

Then Rasalu was very wroth, and said bitterly, "Go back to Sarkap, slaves! and tell him that Rasalu deems it no act of bravery to kill even an enemy by treachery."

Who acts: Rasalu, bravery · What happens: be, say, go back, tell, deem, kill · To what, where: slaves, Rasalu, dog, enemy · 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, bravery), 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	5 wroth	advmod
2	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wroth	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wroth	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 wroth	advmod
5	wroth	wroth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wroth	conj
9	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Go	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Go	punct
12	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 Go	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Sarkap	case
15	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 back	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slaves	punct
17	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Go	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 Go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tell	cc
20	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 Go	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 deems	mark
23	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 deems	nsubj
24	deems	deem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	ccomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 deems	obj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 act	det
27	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 deems	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 bravery	case
29	bravery	bravery	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 act	nmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 kill	mark
31	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 act	acl
32	even	even	ADV	_	34 enemy	advmod
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 enemy	det
34	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 kill	obj
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 treachery	case
36	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 kill	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wroth	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wroth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rasalu			then	wroth property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	Rasalu not said here				bitterly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go back in a quote	infinitive		slaves				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			Rasalu			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	deem in a quote	present	Rasalu	dog				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme act=Attribute
6	kill in a quote	to-infinitive	Rasalu not said here	a enemy			by treachery	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme
7	act in a quote		bravery					nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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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