The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 90
This Mirza is the son of my deadly enemy, the mighty magician Kaschnur, who in an evil moment vowed vengeance on me.
Who acts: Mirza, Kaschnur · What happens: be, vow · To what, where: son, vengeance
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mirza, Kaschnur), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Mirza | det |
| 2 | Mirza | Mirza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 enemy | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 enemy | amod |
| 9 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 magician | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 magician | det |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 magician | amod |
| 13 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | conj |
| 14 | Kaschnur | Kaschnur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 magician | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 vowed | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 vowed | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 moment | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 moment | det |
| 19 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 moment | amod |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 vowed | obl |
| 21 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Kaschnur | acl:relcl |
| 22 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 vowed | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 vowed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this Mirza | the son and the mighty magician | of my deadly enemy | tree rules | |||
| 2 | vow | past | Kaschnur | vengeance | moment | on me | tree rules |
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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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