Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 25

The good man tries One day he had to go elsewhere, |to make it up, but the serpent and he sent his son with the |declares their friendship at an libation.

Who acts: good man, man, serpent · What happens: try, have, go, make up, send, declare · To what, where: libation, son, friendship

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good man, man, serpent), 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	3 man	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tries	nsubj
4	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tries	obl:unmarked
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tries	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
13	\|	\|	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 make	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 declares	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 declares	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 serpent	det
21	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 declares	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sent	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sent	nsubj
24	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 serpent	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 son	nmod:poss
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sent	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 \|	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 \|	det
29	\|	\|	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sent	obl
30	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tries	conj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friendship	nmod:poss
32	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 declares	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 libation	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 libation	det
35	libation	libation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 declares	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tries	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present	the good man			day		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	have	past	man					tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	man not said here				elsewhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make up	to-infinitive	man not said here	libation				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot
5	send	past	man	man's son			with the \|	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
6	declare speech: other	present	the serpent	serpent's friendship	a libation			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Attribute

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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