Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 134
They walked about the bazaar and went to the mosque, but nobody saluted them or invited them to come in and rest.
Who acts: horses, nobody · What happens: walk, go, salute, invite, come in, rest · To what, where: mosque, horses
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 (horses, nobody), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 bazaar | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bazaar | det |
| 5 | bazaar | bazaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 mosque | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mosque | det |
| 10 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saluted | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 saluted | cc |
| 13 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 saluted | nsubj |
| 14 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saluted | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 invited | cc |
| 17 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saluted | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 invited | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 invited | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rest | cc |
| 23 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | horses = horse | about the bazaar | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about bazaar=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go | past | horses = horse not said here | the mosque | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mosque=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | salute | past | nobody | horses = horse | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 4 | invite | past | nobody not said here | horses = horse | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come in not said to happen | to-infinitive | horses = horse not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | rest | infinitive | horses = horse not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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