Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 45
A great many Rajas and Rajas' sons have come here to marry her, and her father has had them all killed.
Who acts: sons, father · What happens: come, marry, have, kill · To what, where: woman
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 (sons, father), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Rajas | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Rajas | amod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Rajas | amod |
| 4 | Rajas | raja | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sons | nmod:poss |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Rajas | cc |
| 6 | Rajas | raja | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Rajas | conj |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 Rajas | case |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 marry | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 had | aux |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 come | parataxis |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 killed | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 killed | advmod |
| 23 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 had | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | a great many Rajas and Rajas's sons | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive | a great many Rajas and Rajas's sons not said here | woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | woman's father | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | kill | past | father | all property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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