Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 114

On the morrow the king repeated to his vizier what his wife had told him, and bade him investigate the matter, and be ready with a satisfactory answer within six months, on pain of death.

Who acts: king · What happens: repeat, tell, investigate, be, pain · To what, where: king, wife, matter, morrow, death · 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 (king), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 morrow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morrow	det
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 investigate	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 investigate	nsubj
6	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 king	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 vizier	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 vizier	nmod:poss
9	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 repeated	obl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 told	obj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	aux
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 vizier	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bade	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bade	cc
18	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bade	obj
20	investigate	investigate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 matter	det
22	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 investigate	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ready	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ready	cc
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 ready	cop
26	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 investigate	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 answer	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 answer	det
29	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 answer	amod
30	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ready	obl
31	within	within	ADP	_	33 months	case
32	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 months	nummod
33	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 investigate	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pain	punct
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 pain	case
36	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 investigate	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 death	case
38	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pain	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 investigate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	participle		the king and bade not said here				to King's vizier	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		King's wife	King				tree rules
3	investigate	present	the king and bade	the matter		the morrow	month	on pain of death	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme
4	is	infinitive	the king and bade not said here					with a satisfactory answer; ready property	tree rules
5	pain			death					nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient

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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