Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 91
A little while ago we were brethren, but now you detest the sight of me."
Who acts: we, you · What happens: be, detest, sight · To what, where: brethren, sight, me
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 (we, you), 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 while | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 while | amod |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 brethren | advmod |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 brethren | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brethren | cop |
| 7 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 detest | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 detest | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 detest | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 detest | nsubj |
| 12 | detest | detest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 brethren | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 detest | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sight | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brethren | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 brethren | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | we | brethren | ago property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | detest | present | you | the sight of me | now | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | sight | me | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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