Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 84
By chance a poor Brahman came by. "
Who acts: poor Brahman · What happens: come by
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 (poor Brahman), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 chance | case |
| 2 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Brahman | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Brahman | amod |
| 5 | Brahman | brahman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 came | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come by | past | a poor Brahman | by chance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=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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