Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 43
The king wished both of them to be executed; but the vizier suggested that the prince should be banished from the country.
Who acts: king, vizier · What happens: wish, execute, suggest, banish · To what, where: both, prince, country · 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 (king, vizier), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 wished | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 both | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 executed | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 executed | aux:pass |
| 9 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wished | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 suggested | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 suggested | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vizier | det |
| 13 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 suggested | nsubj |
| 14 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wished | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 banished | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 banished | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 banished | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 banished | aux:pass |
| 20 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 suggested | ccomp |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 country | det |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 banished | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the king | both | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot both=Theme | ||||
| 2 | execute | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | suggest speech: suggest | past | the vizier | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | banish | should · passive | the prince | the country | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from country=Source |
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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