Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 59
There is yet time for me to return and save my father from an ignominious and unjust death, and the king from danger."
Who acts: time, me · What happens: be, return, save · To what, where: father, ignominious death
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 (time, me), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 time | cc |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 return | mark |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 return | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 return | mark |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 save | cc |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 return | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 death | det |
| 15 | ignominious | ignominious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 death | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 unjust | cc |
| 17 | unjust | unjust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ignominious | conj |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 king | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 king | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | parataxis |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 danger | case |
| 24 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 king | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 king | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | me not said here | my father | a ignominious death | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent father=Theme from death=Source |
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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