Indian Fairy Tales, XIV. Lac of Rupees., sentence 14
He does so when thieves are about, and so saves the king's treasures, of which he gets an appropriate share.
Who acts: youth, thieves, king · What happens: do, be, save, get, treasure · To what, where: treasures, appropriate share
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Lac of Rupees.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, thieves, king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 does | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 about | advmod |
| 5 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 about | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 about | cop |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 so | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saves | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saves | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 saves | advmod |
| 11 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 does | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saves | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gets | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 gets | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gets | nsubj |
| 20 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 saves | conj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 share | det |
| 22 | appropriate | appropriate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 share | amod |
| 23 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gets | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | youth | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | thieves | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | present | the king's treasures | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | present | youth | a appropriate share | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer share=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | treasure | the king | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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