Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 102
I wish to give you a grand feast, to which every one in your country must come--men and women, old and young, rich and poor, of all castes; all the children, fakirs, and sepoys.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: wish, give, come · To what, where: children, grand feast, you, men
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wish | xcomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feast | amod |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 come | obl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 country | nmod:poss |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 men | punct |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 women | cc |
| 22 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 men | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 old | punct |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 young | cc |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 old | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rich | punct |
| 28 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 old | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 poor | cc |
| 30 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 rich | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 castes | punct |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 castes | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 castes | det |
| 34 | castes | caste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 children | punct |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 children | det:predet |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 children | det |
| 38 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wish | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fakirs | punct |
| 40 | fakirs | fakir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 children | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sepoys | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 sepoys | cc |
| 43 | sepoys | sepoy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wish | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | all children and fakirs | sepoys obl | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a grand feast | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient feast=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | must | every one in your country | men and women | of all castes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to which=Initial_Location of caste=Destination |
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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