Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 102

Here's a poisoned arrow, which I'll shoot at you and knock you down!"

Who acts: poisoned arrow · What happens: be, poison, shoot, knock down · To what, where: you

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 (poisoned arrow), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 arrow	det
4	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 arrow	amod
5	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shoot	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 shoot	nsubj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 shoot	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 shoot	aux
10	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 arrow	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 shoot	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 knock	cc
14	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shoot	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 knock	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	14 knock	compound:prt
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 arrow	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a poisoned arrow		here property	tree rules
2	poison	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	shoot	future	a poisoned arrow		at you	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at you=Destination
4	knock down	infinitive	a poisoned arrow not said here	you		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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