Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 2
A soothsayer when on his deathbed wrote out the horoscope of his second son, whose name was Gangazara, and bequeathed it to him as his only property, leaving the whole of his estate to his eldest son.
Who acts: name, soothsayer, Gangazara · What happens: write out, be, bequeath, leave, name · To what, where: horoscope, deathbed, Gangazara, name, Son, whole
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 (name, soothsayer, Gangazara), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 soothsayer | det |
| 2 | soothsayer | soothsayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bequeathed | nsubj |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 wrote | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 deathbed | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 deathbed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | deathbed | deathbed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrote | obl |
| 7 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 soothsayer | acl:relcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 wrote | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horoscope | det |
| 10 | horoscope | horoscope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrote | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 son | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 son | amod |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 horoscope | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Gangazara | punct |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 name | nmod:poss |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Gangazara | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Gangazara | cop |
| 19 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bequeathed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bequeathed | cc |
| 22 | bequeathed | bequeath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bequeathed | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bequeathed | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 property | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 property | nmod:poss |
| 28 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 property | amod |
| 29 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bequeathed | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 leaving | punct |
| 31 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 bequeathed | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 whole | det |
| 33 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 leaving | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 estate | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 estate | nmod:poss |
| 36 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 whole | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 son | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 son | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 40 son | amod |
| 40 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leaving | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 bequeathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write out | past | the horoscope of Soothsayer's second son | Soothsayer's deathbed | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horoscope=Theme on deathbed=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Gangazara's name | Gangazara | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bequeath | past | a soothsayer | name | Son | as Soothsayer's only property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Goal | ||
| 4 | leave | gerund | a soothsayer not said here | the whole | Soothsayer's eldest son | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whole=Theme to son=Recipient | |||
| 5 | name | Gangazara | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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