Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 10
The brothers were married, but their wives did not do the cooking for the family.
Who acts: wives · What happens: marry, not do · To what, where: brothers, cooking
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wives), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wives | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 do | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 do | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 married | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cooking | det |
| 13 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 family | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 family | det |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the brothers | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not do | past · do-support | brothers's wives | the cooking | for the family | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Eventuality |
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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