Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 125

The day was hot, and the way was long and weary.

Who acts: day, way · What happens: be

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 (day, way), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 long	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 long	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 long	cop
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hot	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 weary	cc
12	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 long	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the day	hot property	tree rules
2	is	past	the way	long property	tree rules
3	be		the way not said here		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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