Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 98
May they not have got the story of the giant with his soul outside his body from some European sailor touching at Goa?
Who acts: Miss, European sailor · What happens: not get, touch · To what, where: story, Goa
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss, European sailor), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 got | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 giant | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 soul | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 soul | nmod:poss |
| 13 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 giant | obl |
| 14 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 16 body | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 body | nmod:poss |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soul | nmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 sailor | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 sailor | det |
| 19 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sailor | amod |
| 20 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soul | nmod |
| 21 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 sailor | acl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 Goa | case |
| 23 | Goa | Goa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 touching | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | may · perfect | Miss | the story | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | some European sailor not said here | Goa | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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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