Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 72
"Heaven be praised," exclaimed the vizier's son, "who has preserved me from death at this time!"
Who acts: son · What happens: praise, exclaim, preserve · To what, where: Heaven, son · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (son), 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 | _ | 4 praised | punct |
| 2 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 praised | aux:pass |
| 4 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 praised | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vizier | det |
| 9 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 vizier | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 preserved | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 preserved | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 preserved | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 preserved | aux |
| 16 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 exclaimed | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 preserved | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 preserved | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 preserved | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 praised | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise in a quote | infinitive · passive | Heaven | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the vizier's son | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | preserve in a quote | present · perfect | the vizier's son = son | time | from death | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary from death=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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