Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 76
Then he made a great feast out of gratitude for his son's safety, and gave many, many rupees to the fakirs.
Who acts: medicine · What happens: make, give · To what, where: great feast, gratitude, many many rupees, fakirs
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 (medicine), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 feast | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feast | amod |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 gratitude | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gratitude | case |
| 9 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 safety | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 safety | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 son | case |
| 14 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gratitude | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rupees | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 many | punct |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rupees | amod |
| 21 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gave | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 fakirs | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fakirs | det |
| 24 | fakirs | fakir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gave | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | medicine | a great feast | gratitude for medicine's son's safety | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Product | ||
| 2 | give | past | medicine not said here | many many rupees | the fakirs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rupee=Theme to fakir=Recipient |
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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