Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 144

At once four armed soldiers flew to the river, and bound the poor Brahman hand and foot, while he, sitting in meditation, was without any knowledge of the fate that hung over him.

Who acts: four armed soldiers, prince, fate · What happens: fly, bind, sit, be, hang · To what, where: poor Brahman hand, meditation

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 (four armed soldiers, prince, fate), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 once	case
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 flew	obl
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 soldiers	nummod
4	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soldiers	amod
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bound	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bound	cc
12	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hand	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hand	amod
15	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hand	compound
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bound	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 foot	cc
18	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hand	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sitting	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 sitting	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sitting	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sitting	punct
23	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 bound	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 meditation	case
25	meditation	meditation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knowledge	punct
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 knowledge	cop
28	without	without	ADP	_	30 knowledge	case
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 knowledge	det
30	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 fate	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fate	det
33	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knowledge	nmod
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 hung	nsubj
35	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 fate	acl:relcl
36	over	over	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hung	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	four armed soldiers			to the river	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	bind	past	four armed soldiers not said here	the poor Brahman hand and foot			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	sit	gerund	prince		meditation		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meditation=Location
4	is	past	four armed soldiers not said here			without any knowledge; of the fate	tree rules
5	hang	past	the fate			over prince	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=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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