Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 97
Then the tiger called the Raja's son, and when he came the tiger and his wife made him a great many salaams.
Who acts: tiger, wife · What happens: call, come, make · To what, where: tiger, son, great many salaams · 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 (tiger, wife), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tiger | det |
| 3 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tiger | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Raja | det |
| 6 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Raja | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 came | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tiger | det |
| 15 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 salaams | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 salaams | amod |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 salaams | amod |
| 24 | salaams | salaam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the tiger not said here | the Raja's son | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the tiger | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | son's wife | a great many salaams | son | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary salaam=Product |
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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