Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 146
In a minute, without knowing the cause, the poor Brahman found himself in the dark dungeon.
Who acts: minute, poor Brahman · What happens: know, find · To what, where: cause, Brahman, dark dungeon
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 (minute, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 minute | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 minute | det |
| 3 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knowing | punct |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 knowing | mark |
| 6 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 minute | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cause | det |
| 8 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knowing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 minute | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Brahman | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Brahman | amod |
| 12 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 found | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dungeon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dungeon | det |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dungeon | amod |
| 18 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | a minute not said here | the cause | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the poor Brahman | Brahman | the dark dungeon | minute | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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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