Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 124
Since I have ravaged this road, I never saw such a man.
Who acts: I · What happens: ravage, not see · To what, where: road, man
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 (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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 4 ravaged | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ravaged | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ravaged | aux |
| 4 | ravaged | ravage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 saw | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ravaged | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ravaged | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 saw | advmod |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 man | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ravage | present · perfect | I | this road | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not see | past | I | such man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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