Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 93
If you obey our orders, we will give you a great many rupees."
Who acts: you, we, our · What happens: obey, give, order · To what, where: orders, great many rupees, you
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 (you, we, our), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 obey | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 obey | nsubj |
| 3 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | advcl |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 orders | nmod:poss |
| 5 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 obey | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 obey | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rupees | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rupees | amod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rupees | amod |
| 14 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey a condition, not said to happen | present | you | our orders | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | future | we | a great many rupees | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient rupee=Theme | |||
| 3 | order | our | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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