Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 41

Then he swallowed the boy, and when he had done so, the cow made him many salaams, saying, "It is for this boy's sake that I am to die."

Who acts: horse, cow, care · What happens: swallow, do, make, say, be · To what, where: boy, many salaams, horse · 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 (horse, cow, care), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 swallowed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swallowed	nsubj
3	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swallowed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 done	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 done	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 swallowed	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	11 done	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cow	det
15	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	nsubj
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swallowed	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	obj
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 salaams	amod
19	salaams	salaam	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 made	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 made	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sake	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 sake	punct
24	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sake	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 sake	cop
26	for	for	ADP	_	30 sake	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 boy	det
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sake	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 boy	case
30	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saying	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 die	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 die	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 die	cop
34	to	to	PART	_	35 die	mark
35	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sake	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swallowed	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 swallowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	horse	the boy		then		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
2	do	past · perfect	horse					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	the cow	many salaams	horse			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary salaam=Product
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the cow not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	care				for this boy's sake	tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	the cow = cow				die property	tree rules

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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