Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 61

And the same thing happened the next night, and the next, and on the fourth I told you I was a very poor man, and had come from my country to seek service in yours, and that I was the grain merchant's servant.

Who acts: same thing, I · What happens: happen, tell, be, come, seek · To what, where: you, fourth, poor man, country, service, servant · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (same thing, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 happened	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 next	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 next	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 next	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 happened	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 fourth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fourth	det
17	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	obl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 next	parataxis
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 man	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 man	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 poor	advmod
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 come	cc
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 happened	parataxis
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 country	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 country	nmod:poss
33	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 seek	mark
35	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 come	advcl
36	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seek	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 yours	case
38	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 seek	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 servant	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 servant	cc
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 servant	mark
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 servant	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 servant	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 merchant	det
45	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 merchant	compound
46	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 servant	nmod:poss
47	's	's	PART	_	46 merchant	case
48	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	vocative
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the same thing				night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	I		you	the fourth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is a	past	I	a poor man					tree rules
4	come	past · perfect				my country			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location
5	seek	to-infinitive		service				in yours	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent service=Theme in your=Location
6	is a	past	I	the grain merchant's servant					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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