Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 46
He seized the conch, blew it loudly, and cried out, "Oh, Ram!
Who acts: friend · What happens: seize, blow, cry out · To what, where: conch
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seized | nsubj |
| 2 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 conch | det |
| 4 | conch | conch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seized | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blew | punct |
| 6 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 blew | obj |
| 8 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 6 blew | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cried | cc |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 cried | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ram | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ram | punct |
| 15 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 17 Ram | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Oh | punct |
| 17 | Ram | Ram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | conj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | friend | the conch | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow | past | friend not said here | conch | loudly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | friend not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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