Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 110
I speak of what I have seen with my own eyes and have heard with my own ears."
Who acts: I · What happens: speak, see, hear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 what | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 speak | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seen | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heard | cc |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 seen | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 ears | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ears | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ears | amod |
| 18 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heard | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | I | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | I | with my own eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hear | present · perfect | I not said here | with my own ears | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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