Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 58
On and on the exiles walked, till they arrived at a certain village, where they determined to spend the night under one of the big trees of the place.
Who acts: exiles · What happens: walk, arrive, determine, spend · To what, where: certain village
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 (exiles), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 exiles | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 on | cc |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 On | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 exiles | det |
| 5 | exiles | exile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrived | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 arrived | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 arrived | nsubj |
| 10 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walked | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 village | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 village | amod |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 determined | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 determined | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 determined | nsubj |
| 18 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 village | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 spend | mark |
| 20 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 determined | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spend | obj |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 spend | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 trees | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 trees | det |
| 27 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 trees | amod |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 place | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 place | det |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 trees | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the exiles | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arrive | past | exiles = exile | a certain village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | determine | past | exiles = exile | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | spend | to-infinitive | exiles = exile not said here | night | under one of the big trees of the place | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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