Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 130
Not understanding his meaning, the old man replied, "I don't know."
Who acts: young man, Man · What happens: not understand, reply, not know, mean · To what, where: meaning, old man · 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 (young man, Man), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 understanding | advmod |
| 2 | understanding | understand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 4 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 understanding | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meaning | appos |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 understanding | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 understanding | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | gerund | Man's meaning | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | the old man not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the young man = man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | mean | Man | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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