Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 139
He ordered the execution of some of the viziers on a certain date.
Who acts: letter · What happens: order · To what, where: execution
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 execution | det |
| 4 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 some | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 execution | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 viziers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 viziers | det |
| 9 | viziers | vizier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 some | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 date | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 date | det |
| 12 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 date | amod |
| 13 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 viziers | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | letter | the execution of some | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent execution=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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