Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 17

The chombu, which he carried always full, filling it with the sweet water from the flowing rivulet or plenteous tank, he had exhausted in the heat of the desert.

Who acts: chombu, desert · What happens: carry, fill, flow, exhaust, heat · To what, where: store, flowing rivulet, heat

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 (chombu, desert), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chombu	det
2	chombu	chombu	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	nsubj:outer
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 carried	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 carried	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carried	nsubj
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 full	advmod
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 carried	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 filling	punct
10	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 carried	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 filling	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 water	amod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 filling	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 rivulet	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rivulet	det
18	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 rivulet	amod
19	rivulet	rivulet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 filling	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 tank	cc
21	plenteous	plenteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tank	amod
22	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rivulet	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 exhausted	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 exhausted	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 exhausted	aux
26	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 carried	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 heat	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heat	det
29	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 exhausted	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 desert	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 desert	det
32	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heat	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the chombu			full property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
2	fill	gerund	the chombu not said here	store	the flowing rivulet or plenteous tank	with the sweet water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument
3	flow	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	exhaust	past · perfect	chombu		the heat of the desert		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	heat		the desert				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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