Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 136
"What does the man mean," thought the old farmer, "calling this largely populated city a cemetery?"
Who acts: man, old farmer · What happens: mean, think, call, populate · To what, where: populated city · 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 (man, old farmer), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 mean | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farmer | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 farmer | amod |
| 12 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calling | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 calling | punct |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | advcl |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 city | det |
| 17 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 18 populated | advmod |
| 18 | populated | populate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 city | amod |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 calling | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cemetery | det |
| 21 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 calling | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | the man | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the old farmer | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call in a quote | gerund | the old farmer not said here | this populated city | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme cemetery=Result | ||||
| 4 | populate in a quote | participle | largely property | 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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