Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 31
This suggestion receives strong confirmation from the Demon's reference to Rahu, who does, in Indian myth swallow the moon at times of eclipse.
Who acts: suggestion, Rahu, Demon · What happens: receive, do, swallow, refer · To what, where: strong confirmation, Rahu, reference, moon, Indian myth
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (suggestion, Rahu, Demon), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 suggestion | det |
| 2 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 receives | nsubj |
| 3 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 confirmation | amod |
| 5 | confirmation | confirmation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 receives | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 reference | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Demon | det |
| 8 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reference | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Demon | case |
| 10 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 receives | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Rahu | case |
| 12 | Rahu | Rahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 receives | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 does | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 does | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Rahu | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 swallow | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 myth | case |
| 18 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 myth | amod |
| 19 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swallow | obl |
| 20 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 does | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 moon | det |
| 22 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swallow | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 times | case |
| 24 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swallow | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 eclipse | case |
| 26 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 times | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 receives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | present | this suggestion | strong confirmation | Rahu | the Demon's reference | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent confirmation=Theme from reference=Source | ||
| 2 | do | present | Rahu | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | swallow | infinitive | Rahu not said here | the moon | Indian myth | time | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Patient | ||
| 4 | refer | the Demon | nom reference «communication 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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