Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 111
He reigned for a long time, conferring several benefits upon his brother.
Who acts: Gangazara · What happens: reign, confer · To what, where: several benefits
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 (Gangazara), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reigned | nsubj |
| 2 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reigned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 conferring | punct |
| 8 | conferring | confer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 reigned | advcl |
| 9 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 benefits | amod |
| 10 | benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 conferring | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 brother | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 conferring | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reigned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | past | Gangazara | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | confer | gerund | Gangazara not said here | several benefits | upon Gangazara's brother | tree rules |
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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