Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 83
There lived in a certain place a Brahman, whose name was Svabhavak_ri_pa_n_a, which means "a born miser."
Who acts: name, n, Svabhavak · What happens: live, be, mean, bear, name · To what, where: Brahman, certain place, Svabhavak, born miser · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, n, Svabhavak), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lived | expl |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Brahman | det |
| 8 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Svabhavak | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Svabhavak | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Svabhavak | cop |
| 13 | Svabhavak | Svabhavak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Brahman | conj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Svabhavak | punct |
| 15 | ri | RI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Svabhavak | flat |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 pa | punct |
| 17 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
| 19 | n | n | X | _ | 24 means | nsubj |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 n | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 means | det |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 means | nsubj |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 miser | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 miser | det |
| 27 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 miser | amod |
| 28 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 means | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 miser | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 miser | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Brahman and Svabhavak | a certain place; there | pa obl | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Svabhavak's name | Svabhavak | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | n | a born miser | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miser=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | name | Svabhavak | 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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