Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 84
People said, "What is this Fakir that he should go a-hunting?"
Who acts: People, Fakir · What happens: say, be, go · To what, where: Fakir, hunting · 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 (People, Fakir), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fakir | punct |
| 5 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 Fakir | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Fakir | cop |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Fakir | det |
| 8 | Fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Fakir | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hunting | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 a | punct |
| 15 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fakir | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fakir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | People | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this Fakir | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | should | Fakir | a hunting | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=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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