Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 95
"If you promise not to kill him, I will call him," said the tiger.
Who acts: you, I, tiger · What happens: promise, not kill, call, say · To what, where: son · 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 (you, I, tiger), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 promise | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 promise | nsubj |
| 4 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 call | advcl |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 kill | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 kill | mark |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promise | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 promise | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 call | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 call | aux |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 call | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tiger | det |
| 18 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not kill not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call in a quote | future | I | son | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the tiger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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