Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 100
The elder brother, after finishing the puja, demanded his brother's corpse of the god.
Who acts: elder brother · What happens: finish, demand · To what, where: puja, corpse
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brother), 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 brother | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 demanded | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 finishing | punct |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 finishing | mark |
| 6 | finishing | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 brother | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 puja | det |
| 8 | puja | puja | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finishing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 10 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 corpse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 brother | case |
| 14 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 demanded | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 god | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 god | det |
| 17 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 corpse | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | gerund | the elder brother not said here | the puja | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality puja=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | the elder brother | brother's brother's corpse of the god | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme corpse=Precondition |
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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