Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 21
_), but Vitalis refuses to have anything to do with him, and altogether repudiates the fifty talents. "
Who acts: Vitalis · What happens: refuse, not have, do, repudiate · To what, where: anything, fifty talents
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vitalis), 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 | _ | 6 refuses | punct |
| 2 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 refuses | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 refuses | cc |
| 5 | Vitalis | Vitalis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 refuses | nsubj |
| 6 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 refuses | xcomp |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 anything | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 repudiates | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 repudiates | cc |
| 16 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 17 repudiates | advmod |
| 17 | repudiates | repudiate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 refuses | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 talents | det |
| 19 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 talents | nummod |
| 20 | talents | talent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 repudiates | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 refuses | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 refuses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | present | Vitalis | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not have | to-infinitive | Vitalis not said here | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Vitalis not said here | anything not said here | with Vitalis | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | repudiate | present | Vitalis not said here | the fifty talents | altogether property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talent=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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