Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 14

They then called upon their Bonga, and vowing vows unto him they secured his good-will and assistance; then they said to the Bonga, "At midday when our sister-in-law goes to bring water, cause it thus to happen, that on seeing her pitcher the water shall vanish, and again slowly re-appear.

Who acts: brothers, sister, water, pitcher · What happens: call, vow, secure, say, go, bring · To what, where: vows, Bonga, midday, water, that · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brothers, sister, water, pitcher), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 Bonga	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Bonga	nmod:poss
6	Bonga	Bonga	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 secured	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 secured	cc
9	vowing	vow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 secured	csubj
10	vows	vow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 vowing	obj
11	unto	unto	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 vowing	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 secured	nsubj
14	secured	secure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 will	nmod:poss
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 will	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 secured	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 assistance	cc
20	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 will	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 said	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 Bonga	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Bonga	det
27	Bonga	Bonga	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 said	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 midday	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 midday	punct
30	At	at	ADP	_	31 midday	case
31	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obl
32	when	when	SCONJ	_	39 goes	mark
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sister	nmod:poss
34	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 goes	nsubj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 law	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 law	case
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 in	punct
38	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sister	nmod
39	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 cause	advcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 bring	mark
41	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 goes	xcomp
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bring	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 goes	punct
44	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 said	parataxis
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 cause	obj
46	thus	thus	ADV	_	48 happen	advmod
47	to	to	PART	_	48 happen	mark
48	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 cause	xcomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 that	punct
50	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 happen	obl
51	on	on	SCONJ	_	52 seeing	mark
52	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 happen	advcl
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 pitcher	nmod:poss
54	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 vanish	nsubj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 water	det
56	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 vanish	nsubj
57	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 vanish	aux
58	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 seeing	ccomp
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 re-appear	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 re-appear	cc
61	again	again	ADV	_	63 re-appear	advmod
62	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	63 re-appear	advmod
63	re-appear	re-appear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	brothers = brother				then	upon brothers's Bonga	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	vow	gerund		vows				unto Bonga	tree rules
3	secure	past	brothers = brother						vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	brothers = brother		the Bonga	midday	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bonga=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go in a quote	present	our sister in law						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	bring in a quote	to-infinitive	our sister in law not said here	water					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme
7	cause in a quote	infinitive		water					tree rules
8	happen in a quote	to-infinitive	water not said here	that				thus property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	see in a quote	gerund	water not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	vanish in a quote	shall	sister's pitcher						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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