Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 35
Hiraman parrot, who lives in the jungle where I went to hunt, told me your name, and then I left my father and mother, and came to see you."
Who acts: parrot, I, Hiraman, your · What happens: live, go, hunt, tell, leave, come · To what, where: jungle, name, me, father, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, I, Hiraman, your), 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 | Hiraman | Hiraman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj |
| 2 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hiraman | appos |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lives | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 parrot | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 jungle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jungle | det |
| 8 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jungle | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hunt | mark |
| 13 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hiraman | punct |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 name | nmod:poss |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 left | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 left | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 left | nsubj |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | conj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mother | cc |
| 27 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 father | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 came | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 came | cc |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 see | mark |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 came | advcl |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 see | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 came | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | parrot | the jungle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hunt | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Hiraman | your name | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient name=Topic | |||
| 5 | leave | past | I | my father and mother | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | |||
| 6 | come | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | name | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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