Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 68
"Sea-born am I, bought with much gold; Dear Prince! trust me now as of old.
Who acts: Dear Prince · What happens: be, buy, trust · To what, where: Bhaunr
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 (Dear Prince), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 born | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sea | punct |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | cop |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 born | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bought | punct |
| 8 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 born | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gold | amod |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bought | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 trust | punct |
| 13 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Prince | amod |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 trust | nsubj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Prince | punct |
| 16 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 born | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 trust | obj |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 trust | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 old | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trust | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | I obl; bear property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | buy in a quote | participle | with much gold | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | trust in a quote | infinitive | Dear Prince | Bhaunr | now | as old | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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