Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 105

The Brahman told it all over again, but the jackal shook his head in a distracted sort of way, and still could not understand.

Who acts: Brahman, jackal · What happens: tell, shake, distract, not understand, sort · To what, where: recital, head, distracted sort, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brahman, jackal), 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 Brahman	det
2	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 again	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	7 again	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shook	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 shook	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jackal	det
11	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shook	nsubj
12	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shook	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 sort	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sort	det
17	distracted	distract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 sort	amod
18	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shook	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 way	case
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sort	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 understand	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 understand	cc
23	still	still	ADV	_	26 understand	advmod
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 understand	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 understand	advmod
26	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Brahman		recital		again	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	shake	past	the jackal	Jackal's head		a distracted sort of way		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme in sort=Trajectory
3	distract	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	not understand	could					still	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	sort			way				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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