Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 104

One said, "I want this;" another said, "You cannot have it, for I want it;" and so on.

Who acts: One, You, I · What happens: say, want, not have · To what, where: this, another, war · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, You, I), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 want	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 said	nsubj:pass
11	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
14	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 have	advmod
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 want	case
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 want	nsubj
22	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 have	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 want	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 on	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 on	advmod
28	on	on	ADV	_	11 said	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	One		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want in a quote	present	One	this	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=Theme
3	say speech: assert	participle · passive		another	tree rules
4	not have in a quote	can	You	war	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	want in a quote	present	I	war	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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