Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 64
I appoint the tiger as guard over my property.
Who acts: I · What happens: appoint · To what, where: tiger, property
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 appoint | nsubj |
| 2 | appoint | appoint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tiger | det |
| 4 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appoint | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 guard | case |
| 6 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appoint | obl |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 property | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 property | nmod:poss |
| 9 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appoint | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appoint | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | infinitive | I | the tiger | my property | as guard | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tiger=Theme as guard=Attribute |
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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