Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 16
He replied, "Fakir, a thousand men have come and passed by; you pass on too."
Who acts: King, thousand men, you · What happens: reply, come, pass by, pass on · To what, where: Fakir · 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, thousand men, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fakir | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fakir | punct |
| 5 | Fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 men | nummod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 replied | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 passed | cc |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 come | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 passed | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 pass | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 pass | nsubj |
| 17 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 replied | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 pass | compound:prt |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 pass | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | King | Fakir | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · perfect | a thousand men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pass by in a quote | participle | a thousand men not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pass on in a quote | present | you | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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