Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 56

Then he thought that two men unaided could not kill such a wicked horse, so he ordered his servants to bid his troop of sepoys shoot him.

Who acts: Katar, two men, servants, troop · What happens: think, unaid, not kill, order, bid, shoot · To what, where: wicked horse, servants, Katar

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 (Katar, two men, servants, troop), 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 thought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 unaided	mark
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 unaided	nsubj
7	unaided	unaid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	ccomp
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 kill	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 kill	advmod
10	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 unaided	ccomp
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 horse	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horse	amod
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kill	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ordered	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 ordered	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ordered	nsubj
18	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 servants	nmod:poss
20	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ordered	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 bid	mark
22	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ordered	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 troop	nmod:poss
24	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shoot	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 sepoys	case
26	sepoys	sepoy	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 troop	nmod
27	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bid	ccomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 shoot	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Katar		then	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	unaid	past	two men			tree rules
3	not kill	could	two men not said here	such wicked horse		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
4	order	past	Katar	Katar's servants		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic
5	bid not said to happen	to-infinitive	Katar's servants not said here			tree rules
6	shoot	present	Katar's troop of sepoys	Katar		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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