Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 46
When they saw that he was not to be prevailed upon, they gave him food and a plentiful supply of liquor.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: see, not be, give · To what, where: Jogi, food · 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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gave | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 prevailed | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 prevailed | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 prevailed | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 prevailed | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 prevailed | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 prevailed | aux:pass |
| 10 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 prevailed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 supply | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 supply | det |
| 19 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 supply | amod |
| 20 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 food | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 liquor | case |
| 22 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 supply | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | brothers = brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not is | past · passive | Jogi | prevail property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | brothers = brother | food and a plentiful supply of liquor | Jogi | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=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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