Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 107
Whichever of you gets to my first arrow, shall have the first thing--the bed.
Who acts: Whichever · What happens: get, have · To what, where: first thing
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 (Whichever), 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 | Whichever | whichever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 you | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Whichever | nmod |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 arrow | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 arrow | amod |
| 8 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 gets | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 bed | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bed | det |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thing | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Whichever of you | to my first arrow result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to arrow=Result | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | the first thing and the bed | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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