Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 87
So two months after the young prince had revenged himself on his brothers-in-law, Katar said to him, "It is time for you to return to your father.
Who acts: Katar, law · What happens: revenge, say, be, return · To what, where: two months, prince, time · 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 (Katar, law), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 revenged | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 months | nummod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 revenged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 prince | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 prince | amod |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 months | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 revenged | aux |
| 9 | revenged | revenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 said | ccomp |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 revenged | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 brothers | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 revenged | obl |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 law | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 law | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brothers | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 revenged | punct |
| 19 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 time | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 time | punct |
| 25 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 time | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 time | cop |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 time | nmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 return | mark |
| 31 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 time | acl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 father | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 father | nmod:poss |
| 34 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 return | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revenge | past · perfect · passive | two months after the young prince | on prince's brothers and law | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Katar | prince | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | law | time | for prince | tree rules | |||
| 4 | return in a quote | to-infinitive | Katar not said here | to your father result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result |
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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