Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 73
Said the Teacher to him: "Is it really true that you have ceased all striving?"--"Yes, Blessed One," he replied.
Who acts: Teacher, Brother · What happens: say, be, cease, strive, bless, reply · To what, where: Brother, One · 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 (Teacher, Brother), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Teacher | det |
| 3 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 true | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 true | punct |
| 8 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 true | cop |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 true | nsubj |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 true | advmod |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 ceased | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 ceased | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ceased | aux |
| 15 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 true | advcl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 striving | advmod |
| 17 | striving | strive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 ceased | advcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 striving | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 striving | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 Blessed | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Blessed | punct |
| 22 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 24 Blessed | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Yes | punct |
| 24 | Blessed | bless | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Said | parataxis |
| 25 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 Blessed | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 replied | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 replied | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 replied | nsubj |
| 29 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Blessed | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Teacher | Brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Teacher | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cease in a quote | present · perfect | Brother | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | strive in a quote | gerund | Brother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bless in a quote | participle | One | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 6 | reply speech: assert | past | Brother | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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