Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 52

"Give your mistress my salam," he replied, "and tell her that the moon is new, and that I can only find eleven months in the year, and the sea is by no means full."

Who acts: you, mistress, moon, Half way, sea · What happens: give, reply, tell, be, find · To what, where: salam, mistress, way · 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 (you, mistress, moon, Half way), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mistress	nmod:poss
4	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 salam	nmod:poss
6	salam	salam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 replied	nsubj
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 new	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moon	det
18	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 new	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 new	cop
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tell	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 find	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 find	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 find	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 find	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 find	aux
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 find	advmod
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Give	advcl
28	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 months	nummod
29	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 find	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 year	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 year	det
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 means	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 means	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sea	det
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 means	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 means	cop
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 no	case
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 means	obl
40	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	conj
41	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 means	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my salam	your mistress			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient salam=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	mistress					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		way			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is in a quote	present	the moon				new property	tree rules
5	find in a quote	can	Half way = way			month; year		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	the sea				by no; full, mean property	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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