Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 86
Tell her that you weep for the loss of your friend, who died suddenly this morning.
Who acts: you, friend · What happens: tell, weep, die · To what, where: Gulizar · 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 (you, friend), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 weep | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 weep | nsubj |
| 5 | weep | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 loss | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 loss | det |
| 8 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weep | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 friend | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loss | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 died | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 died | nsubj |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 friend | acl:relcl |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 14 died | advmod |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 morning | det |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 died | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | Gulizar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | weep | present | you | for the loss of your friend | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | die | past | your friend | morning | suddenly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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