Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 107
So he, by his divine power, gave him a living Gangazara instead of the dead corpse.
What happens: give · To what, where: living, Ganesa
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 power | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 power | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 power | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 power | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 power | nmod:poss |
| 6 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 power | amod |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 power | punct |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 living | det |
| 12 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 living | appos |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 18 corpse | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 instead | fixed |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 corpse | det |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 corpse | amod |
| 18 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a living | Ganesa | by Ganesa's divine power; instead the dead corpse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient living=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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