Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 108
Remembering the prophecy of his father he returned by the same way by which he went to Benares ten years before.
Who acts: prophecy · What happens: remember, return, go · To what, where: prophecy, father, Benares
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prophecy), 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 | Remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 way | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prophecy | det |
| 3 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Remembering | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 father | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prophecy | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 father | acl:relcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 went | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 way | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Benares | case |
| 18 | Benares | Benares | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 19 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 years | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | gerund | the prophecy of prophecy's father | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent prophecy=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return | past | prophecy | prophecy's father not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | prophecy | Benares | year | by the same way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to benares=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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