Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 109

The brothers had a long talk about each other's adventures.

Who acts: brothers · What happens: have · To what, where: long talk

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 (brothers), 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	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 talk	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 talk	amod
6	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	11 adventures	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 adventures	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 adventures	amod
10	's	's	PART	_	9 other	case
11	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the brothers	a long talk				about each other adventures	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient

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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