Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 17
"My friend," returned the money-lender, piously, "riches come from Ram--ask _him_."
Who acts: friend, riches · What happens: return, come, ask · To what, where: money lender, Ram, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, riches), 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 | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lender | det |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lender | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 money | punct |
| 10 | lender | lender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 piously | punct |
| 12 | piously | piously | ADV | _ | 6 returned | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 15 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | parataxis |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Ram | case |
| 18 | Ram | Ram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 ask | punct |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | parataxis |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 him | punct |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ask | obl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 ask | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | My friend | the money lender | piously property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | riches | Ram | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ram=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | friend | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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