Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 35
Business is at a stand-still unless we make a bargain.
Who acts: Business, we · What happens: be, make · To what, where: stand, bargain
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 (Business, we), 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 | Business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 stand | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stand | det |
| 5 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 make | advmod |
| 8 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bargain | det |
| 12 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Business | a stand | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make a condition, not said to happen | present | we | a bargain | still | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product |
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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