Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 4
He will be calling the land water, and the water land; and be speaking of light where there is darkness, and of darkness when it is light."
Who acts: man, darkness · What happens: call, speak, be · To what, where: land water, light · 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 (man, darkness), 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 | 4 calling | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 calling | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 calling | aux |
| 4 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | compound |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calling | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 land | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 land | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 land | compound |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calling | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 speaking | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 speaking | cc |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 speaking | aux |
| 16 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 calling | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 light | case |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 speaking | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 is | advmod |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 light | acl:relcl |
| 22 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 is | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 darkness | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 darkness | cc |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 darkness | case |
| 26 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 speaking | conj |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 light | advmod |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 light | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 light | cop |
| 30 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 speaking | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 speaking | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 calling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | future · progressive | man | the land water | the water land obl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent water=Recipient | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive · progressive | man not said here | of light | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | present | darkness | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | darkness | light | tree rules |
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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