Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 22
We have never seen such a prince in this jungle before; he must come from another country."
Who acts: We, prince · What happens: not see, come · To what, where: prince, jungle, country
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 (We, prince), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 prince | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 jungle | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 jungle | det |
| 10 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obl |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 seen | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seen | parataxis |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 country | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · perfect | We | such prince | this jungle | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | come | must | prince | another country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location |
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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