Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 13
Thus thought he, and after all the funeral obsequies of his father were over, took leave of his elder brother, and started for Benares.
Who acts: funeral obsequies · What happens: think, be, take, start · To what, where: DEATH, leave
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 (funeral obsequies), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 thought | advmod |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 over | mark |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 obsequies | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 obsequies | det |
| 9 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obsequies | compound |
| 10 | obsequies | obsequy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 over | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obsequies | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 over | cop |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 took | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 over | punct |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 18 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 brother | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 brother | amod |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 started | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 started | cc |
| 25 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 Benares | case |
| 27 | Benares | Benares | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 started | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | DEATH | thus property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all funeral obsequies of DEATH's father | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | leave of DEATH's elder brother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||||
| 4 | start | past | for Benares | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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