Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 35
Here above all be on your guard, for the wood is peopled by demons who live on human flesh.
Who acts: all, demons · What happens: be, people, live · To what, where: guard, wood, human flesh
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, demons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | above | above | ADP | _ | 7 guard | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 guard | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 guard | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 guard | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 guard | nmod:poss |
| 7 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 peopled | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 peopled | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peopled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 peopled | aux:pass |
| 13 | peopled | people | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Here | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 demons | case |
| 15 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 peopled | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 live | nsubj |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 demons | acl:relcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 flesh | case |
| 19 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flesh | amod |
| 20 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 live | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | all | your guard | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | people | present · passive | demons | the wood | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | present | demons | human flesh | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flesh=Location |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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