Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 19
Then Sun (who was eldest) said, "I have brought nothing home for you.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: be, say, bring · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | advmod |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 eldest | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 eldest | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eldest | cop |
| 6 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 Sun | nmod |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 eldest | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 brought | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sun | eld property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sun | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | Sun | nothing | for you; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nothing=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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