Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 109
He struck him with his club--and that stuck too!
Who acts: arrow, that · What happens: strike, stick · To what, where: Bodhisatta
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 (arrow, that), 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 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struck | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 club | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 club | nmod:poss |
| 6 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 stuck | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stuck | cc |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 stuck | nsubj |
| 10 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 struck | parataxis |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 stuck | advmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | arrow | Bodhisatta | with arrow's club | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with club=Instrument | |||
| 2 | stick | past | that | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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