Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 108
Thus was the second son of the Soothsayer restored to life.
Who acts: second son · What happens: be, restore · To what, where: second son, life
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 (second 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 son | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 son | amod |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 restored | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Soothsayer | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Soothsayer | det |
| 8 | Soothsayer | Soothsayer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 9 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 restored | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 restored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the second son | of the Soothsayer; thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | restore | past | the second son | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to life=Recipient |
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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