Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 85
"Go, my son; in the kingdom of Candahar, in the city of Takkasila, is a far-famed teacher from whom I wish you to learn.
Who acts: you, teacher · What happens: go, fame, be, wish, learn · To what, where: famed teacher, you
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, teacher), 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 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | vocative |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 kingdom | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kingdom | det |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Candahar | case |
| 11 | Candahar | Candahar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kingdom | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 city | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kingdom | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Takkasila | case |
| 17 | Takkasila | Takkasila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 city | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 teacher | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 teacher | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 teacher | det |
| 21 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 famed | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 far | punct |
| 23 | famed | fame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 teacher | amod |
| 24 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 whom | case |
| 26 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 teacher | nmod |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 wish | nsubj |
| 28 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 whom | acl:relcl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 wish | iobj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 learn | mark |
| 31 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 wish | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | imperative | you not said here | my son vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fame in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a famed teacher | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | my teacher = teacher | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | learn not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | my teacher = teacher not said here | vn learn-14-1 «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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