Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 65
And he took his gun, and his bow and arrows, and a great many other weapons, "for," he said, "I may want them."
Who acts: prince · What happens: take, say, want · To what, where: gun, weapons · 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 (prince), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gun | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bow | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bow | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 arrows | cc |
| 11 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bow | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 weapons | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 weapons | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 weapons | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 weapons | amod |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 weapons | amod |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 weapons | amod |
| 18 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 took | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 want | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 want | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 want | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 want | aux |
| 30 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 want | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 want | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | prince | prince's gun | a great many other weapons obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | may | prince | weapons = weapon | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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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