Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 33
But, after nearly bursting himself with blowing the conch in every conceivable way, he was obliged to give up the secret as a bad job.
What happens: burst, blow, oblige, give up · To what, where: lender, conch, secret
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 obliged | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 bursting | mark |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 bursting | advmod |
| 5 | bursting | burst | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 obliged | advcl |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 bursting | obj |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 8 blowing | mark |
| 8 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bursting | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 conch | det |
| 10 | conch | conch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blowing | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 way | det |
| 13 | conceivable | conceivable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blowing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bursting | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 obliged | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 obliged | aux:pass |
| 18 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 obliged | xcomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 give | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 secret | det |
| 23 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 job | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 job | det |
| 26 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 job | amod |
| 27 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | gerund | lender | nearly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow | gerund | the conch | in every conceivable way | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent conch=Patient in way=Topic | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | lender | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | give up | to-infinitive | the secret | as a bad job | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Source |
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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