Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 36

The declares their friendship at an |serpent, however, declares end, as it could not forget the |friendship impossible, as it blow of the Brahmin's son, nor |could not forget the blow----nor the Brahmin his son's death from |the farmer his son's death from the bite of the snake.

Who acts: end, |, Brahmin, son · What happens: declare, not forget, death, blow, die, bite · To what, where: friendship, | serpent, end, | friendship, blow, snake

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 (end, |, Brahmin, son), 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 declares	det
2	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friendship	nmod:poss
4	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 declares	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 serpent	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 serpent	det
7	\|	\|	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 serpent	amod
8	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 declares	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 declares	punct
10	however	however	ADV	_	12 declares	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 however	punct
12	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 declares	parataxis
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 declares	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 forget	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 forget	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 forget	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 forget	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 forget	advmod
19	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 declares	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 friendship	det
21	\|	\|	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 friendship	compound
22	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 forget	obj
23	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 forget	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 blow	punct
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 blow	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 blow	nsubj
27	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 forget	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 son	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Brahmin	det
30	Brahmin	Brahmin	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 son	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 Brahmin	case
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blow	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 forget	punct
34	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	38 forget	cc
35	\|	\|	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 forget	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 forget	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 forget	advmod
38	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 declares	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 blow	det
40	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 forget	obj
41	----	----	PUNCT	_	48 death	punct
42	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	48 death	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Brahmin	det
44	Brahmin	Brahmin	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 death	nsubj
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 son	nmod:poss
46	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 death	nmod:poss
47	's	's	PART	_	46 son	case
48	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 declares	parataxis
49	from	from	ADP	_	52 farmer	case
50	\|	\|	PUNCT	_	49 from	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 farmer	det
52	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 death	nmod
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 son	nmod:poss
54	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 death	nmod:poss
55	's	's	PART	_	54 son	case
56	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 farmer	nmod
57	from	from	ADP	_	59 bite	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 bite	det
59	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 farmer	nmod
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 snake	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 snake	det
62	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 bite	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declares	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	present		serpent's friendship	a \| serpent		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Attribute
2	declare speech: other	present		end		however property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Attribute
3	not forget	could	end	the \| friendship		impossible property	tree rules
4	not forget	could	\|	the blow			tree rules
5	death		the Brahmin			from the farmer Brahmin's son's death from the bite of the snake	tree rules
6	blow		the Brahmin's son				nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent
7	die		Brahmin's son				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
8	bite			the snake			nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient

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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