Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 10
The dog made her a great many salaams, and said, "To-morrow I shall die;" and the cow then went back to her stable.
Who acts: dog, I, cow · What happens: make, say, die, go back · To what, where: great many salaams, child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, I, cow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 salaams | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 salaams | amod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 salaams | amod |
| 8 | salaams | salaam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 die | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 die | punct |
| 14 | To | to | ADP | _ | 16 morrow | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 To | punct |
| 16 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 die | obl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 die | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 die | aux |
| 19 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 die | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 die | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cow | det |
| 24 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | nsubj |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 went | advmod |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 stable | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 stable | nmod:poss |
| 30 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 went | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the dog | a great many salaams | child | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary salaam=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | die in a quote | shall | I | to morrow | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | go back | past | the cow | then | to dog's stable result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to stable=Result |
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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