Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 77

The poor son of the Soothsayer, who was now almost dying of thirst, let down his vessel for a third time.

Who acts: poor son · What happens: die, let down · To what, where: vessel

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 (poor son), 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	3 son	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Soothsayer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Soothsayer	det
6	Soothsayer	Soothsayer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dying	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 dying	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dying	aux
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 dying	advmod
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 dying	advmod
12	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 son	acl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 thirst	case
14	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 let	compound:prt
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 vessel	nmod:poss
19	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 time	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · progressive	the poor son of the Soothsayer				now	of thirst; almost property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer
2	let down	infinitive	the poor son of the Soothsayer	Son's vessel			time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=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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