Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 8
However, if you are determined to go and play chaupur with him, take some of the bones from this graveyard, and make your dice out of them, and then the enchanted dice with which my brother plays will lose their virtue.
Who acts: you, brother · What happens: be, go, play, take, make, enchant · To what, where: chaupur, some, graveyard, dice, virtue
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 (you, brother), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 determined | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 determined | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 determined | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 determined | cop |
| 6 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 determined | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 play | cc |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 11 | chaupur | chaupur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 play | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 play | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 play | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bones | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bones | det |
| 19 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 some | nmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 graveyard | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 graveyard | det |
| 22 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 make | cc |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 take | conj |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 dice | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 make | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dice | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 dice | cc |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 dice | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 dice | det |
| 35 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 dice | amod |
| 36 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 determined | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 plays | obl |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 brother | nmod:poss |
| 40 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 plays | nsubj |
| 41 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 dice | parataxis |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 lose | aux |
| 43 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 plays | xcomp |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 virtue | nmod:poss |
| 45 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lose | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | determined, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | play | infinitive | you not said here | chaupur | with corpse | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with he=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | take | infinitive | you not said here | some | this graveyard | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent some=Theme from graveyard=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | make | infinitive | you not said here | your dice | out bones = bone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dice=Product | |||
| 6 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | play | present | my brother | with the enchanted dice | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | lose | future | my brother not said here | bones's virtue | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Eventuality |
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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