Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 87
Then Sarkap brought all his skill to bear on the third and last game, saying,
Who acts: Sarkap · What happens: bring, bear, say · To what, where: skill, third game · 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 (Sarkap), 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 | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | Sarkap | Sarkap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 skill | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 skill | nmod:poss |
| 6 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bear | mark |
| 8 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 brought | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 game | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 game | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 game | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 last | cc |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 third | conj |
| 14 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bear | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 brought | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Sarkap | Rasalu's skill | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent skill=Theme | |||
| 2 | bear | to-infinitive | Sarkap not said here | the third game | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Sarkap not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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