Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 14

He went by the middle of the Deccan, avoiding both the coasts, and went on journeying and journeying for weeks and months, till at last he reached the Vindhya mountains.

Who acts: DEATH · What happens: go, avoid, journey, reach · To what, where: coasts, Vindhya mountains

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 (DEATH), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Deccan	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Deccan	det
8	Deccan	Deccan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 middle	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 avoiding	punct
10	avoiding	avoid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
11	both	both	CCONJ	_	13 coasts	cc:preconj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coasts	det
13	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 avoiding	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
17	on	on	SCONJ	_	18 journeying	mark
18	journeying	journey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 went	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 journeying	cc
20	journeying	journey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 journeying	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 weeks	case
22	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 journeying	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 months	cc
24	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 weeks	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 reached	punct
26	till	till	ADP	_	28 last	case
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reached	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 reached	nsubj
30	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mountains	det
32	Vindhya	Vindhya	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 mountains	compound
33	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 reached	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	DEATH			by the middle of the Deccan	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by middle=Location
2	avoid	gerund	DEATH not said here	the coasts			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent coast=Location
3	go	past					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	journey	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	journey	gerund			week		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	reach	past	DEATH	the Vindhya mountains	till last		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme

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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