Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 106
I will shoot four arrows in four different directions.
Who acts: I · What happens: shoot · To what, where: four arrows, four different directions
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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:162): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 shoot | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 shoot | aux |
| 3 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 arrows | nummod |
| 5 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shoot | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 directions | case |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 directions | nummod |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 directions | amod |
| 9 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shoot | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | future | I | four arrows | four different directions | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme in direction=Destination |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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