Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 23
"Oh, I have a long journey before me, for I am going to find Ram!" replied the farmer. "
Who acts: farmer · What happens: have, go, find, reply · To what, where: long journey, Ram · 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 (farmer), 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 | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 journey | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 journey | amod |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 going | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 replied | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 going | xcomp |
| 18 | Ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 21 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 farmer | det |
| 23 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 replied | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the farmer = farmer | a long journey | before the farmer = farmer | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the farmer = farmer | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | the farmer = farmer not said here | Ram | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=Topic | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: express | past | the farmer | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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