Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 3
_Whose mind and heart from all desire is free, Who seeks for peace by living virtuously, He in due time will sever all the bonds That bind him fast to life, and cease to be.
Who acts: mind, Teacher, bonds · What happens: be, seek, live, sever, bind, cease · To what, where: Teacher
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 (mind, Teacher, bonds), 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 | _ | 10 free | punct |
| 2 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 3 mind | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 free | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 heart | cc |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 desire | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 desire | det |
| 8 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 free | cop |
| 10 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seeks | punct |
| 12 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 seeks | nsubj |
| 13 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 free | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 peace | case |
| 15 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seeks | obl |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 living | mark |
| 17 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 seeks | advcl |
| 18 | virtuously | virtuously | ADV | _ | 17 living | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sever | punct |
| 20 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sever | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sever | obl |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 sever | aux |
| 25 | sever | sever | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 free | parataxis |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 bonds | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bonds | det |
| 28 | bonds | bond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 bind | nsubj |
| 29 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 bind | nsubj |
| 30 | bind | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sever | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bind | obj |
| 32 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 bind | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 life | case |
| 34 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bind | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 cease | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 cease | cc |
| 37 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sever | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 be | mark |
| 39 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 cease | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | mind and heart from all desire | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | present | for peace | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for peace=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | gerund | virtuously property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sever | future | Teacher | time | vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bind | present | all bonds | Teacher | to life; fast property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient to life=Co-Patient | |||
| 6 | cease | infinitive | Teacher not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | be | to-infinitive | Teacher not said here | 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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