Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 8
Then Balna used to say to her sisters, "Send that woman away; send her away.
Who acts: Balna · What happens: use, say, send away · To what, where: sisters, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balna), 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 | 3 used | advmod |
| 2 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 sisters | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Send | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Send | punct |
| 11 | Send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | conj |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 woman | det |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Send | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 Send | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 send | punct |
| 16 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 send | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 send | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Balna | then | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Balna not said here | Balna's sisters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | send away in a quote | infinitive | Balna not said here | that woman | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | |||
| 4 | send away in a quote | infinitive | Balna not said here | woman | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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