Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 12

The wives for this reason bore their sister-in-law much ill-will, and at length they combined together to oust her from the office of cook and general provider, so that one of themselves might obtain it.

Who acts: wives, brothers, one · What happens: bear, combine, oust, obtain · To what, where: much, sister, law, length, office, 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, brothers, one), 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 wives	det
2	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bore	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 reason	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 reason	det
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wives	nmod
6	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bore	obj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 law	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 law	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 in	punct
12	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sister	nmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bore	obj
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 will	advcl
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 much	aux
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 combined	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 combined	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 length	case
20	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 combined	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 combined	nsubj
22	combined	combine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bore	conj
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 combined	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 oust	mark
25	oust	oust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 combined	xcomp
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 oust	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 office	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 office	det
29	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 oust	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 cook	case
31	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 office	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 provider	cc
33	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 provider	amod
34	provider	provider	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 office	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 obtain	punct
36	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	42 obtain	mark
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 so	fixed
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 obtain	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 themselves	case
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 one	nmod
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 obtain	aux
42	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 oust	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 obtain	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past	the wives for this reason	much	brothers's sister	law		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent sister=Beneficiary much=Patient
2	combine	past	brothers = brother			length	together property	tree rules
3	oust	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	sister		the office of cook and general provider		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from office=Source
4	obtain	might	one of brothers	cooking				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=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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