Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 20
Next the farmer met a Jogi or devotee, and to him he gave a cake, without receiving any help in return.
Who acts: friend · What happens: meet, give, receive · To what, where: Jogi, cake, friend, help, return
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), 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 | Next | next | ADP | _ | 3 farmer | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obl |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Jogi | det |
| 6 | Jogi | Jogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 devotee | cc |
| 8 | devotee | devotee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Jogi | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cake | det |
| 16 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 receiving | punct |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 receiving | mark |
| 19 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 gave | advcl |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 help | det |
| 21 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 receiving | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 return | case |
| 23 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 receiving | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | a Jogi or devotee | next the farmer | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jogi=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | past | friend | a cake | friend | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cake=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | receive | gerund | friend not said here | any help | return | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent help=Theme in return=Location |
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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