Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 65
Now in course of time the Bonga girl's family became very poor, and her brothers on one occasion came to the chief's house on a visit.
Who acts: family, brothers · What happens: become, come · To what, where: house
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 (family, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 became | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 course | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Now | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 course | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | Bonga | Bonga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | compound |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 family | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | nsubj |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 poor | advmod |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 became | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 came | nsubj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 occasion | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 occasion | nummod |
| 20 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brothers | nmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 became | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chief | det |
| 24 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 chief | case |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 visit | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 visit | det |
| 29 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 house | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Bonga girl's family | now | poor property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | past | girl's brothers on one occasion | the chief's house on a visit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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