Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 72
Long ago the Bodisat was born to a forest life as the Genius of a tree standing near a certain lotus pond.
Who acts: tree · What happens: bear, stand · To what, where: Bodisat, certain lotus pond
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 (tree), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ago | advmod |
| 2 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 born | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bodisat | det |
| 4 | Bodisat | Bodisat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 born | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | aux:pass |
| 6 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 life | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 life | compound |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 born | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Genius | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Genius | det |
| 13 | Genius | Genius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 life | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Genius | nmod |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 tree | acl |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 pond | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pond | det |
| 20 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pond | amod |
| 21 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pond | compound |
| 22 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 standing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | the Bodisat | to a forest life as the Genius of a tree; ago property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | a tree not said here | a certain lotus pond | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near pond=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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