Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 111

It is late," they said, "and there is not another village within several miles."

Who acts: house, men, village · What happens: be, say, not be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, men, village), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 late	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 late	cop
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 is	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 is	advmod
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 village	det
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	nsubj
16	within	within	ADP	_	18 miles	case
17	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 miles	amod
18	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 is	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	house		late property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	men = man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not be	present	another village	there	within several miles	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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