Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 5

The night before they left the viziers and others, whom the king intended to have executed as soon as his visitors had left, came and besought the vizier's son to plead for them, and promised that they each would give him a daughter in marriage.

Who acts: jewels, visitors, night · What happens: leave, intend, execute, come, beseech, plead · To what, where: viziers, son, daughter, king, marriage · 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 (jewels, visitors, night), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 left	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 night	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 viziers	det
7	viziers	vizier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 left	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 others	cc
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 viziers	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 intended	punct
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 intended	nsubj:pass
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 intended	nsubj
14	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 viziers	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	17 executed	mark
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 executed	aux
17	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 intended	xcomp
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 soon	advmod
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 executed	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 left	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 visitors	nmod:poss
22	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 left	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 left	aux
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 soon	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 besought	cc
28	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 came	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 vizier	det
30	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 son	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 vizier	case
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 besought	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 plead	mark
34	plead	plead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 besought	advcl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 plead	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 promised	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 promised	cc
39	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 came	conj
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 give	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 give	nsubj
42	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	41 they	det
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 give	aux
44	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 promised	ccomp
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 give	iobj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 daughter	det
47	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 give	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 marriage	case
49	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 give	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	jewels = jewel	the viziers and others				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizier=Theme
2	intend	participle · passive		the viziers and others				tree rules
3	execute not said to happen	to-infinitive · perfect					soon property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	leave	past · perfect	king's visitors					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	the night					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	beseech	past	the night not said here	the vizier's son				tree rules
7	plead speech: request	to-infinitive	the night not said here				for jewels = jewel	tree rules
8	promise speech: promise	past	the night not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	give	would	jewels = jewel	a daughter	king	marriage		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=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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