Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 24
A royal proclamation was issued to this effect.
What happens: issue · To what, where: royal proclamation, effect
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 proclamation | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 proclamation | amod |
| 3 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 issued | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 issued | aux:pass |
| 5 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 effect | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 effect | det |
| 8 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 issued | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | past · passive | a royal proclamation | this effect | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to effect=Recipient |
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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