Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 100
Said the Bodhisatta: "Demon, I came here trusting in myself.
Who acts: Bodhisatta · What happens: say, come, trust · To what, where: Demon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bodhisatta), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bodhisatta | det |
| 3 | Bodhisatta | Bodhisatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Demon | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Demon | punct |
| 6 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Said | conj |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 myself | case |
| 13 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 trusting | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Bodhisatta | Demon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | the Bodhisatta = bodhisatta | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trust in a quote | gerund | the Bodhisatta = bodhisatta not said here | in the Bodhisatta = bodhisatta | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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