Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 114
There was a certain Brahman in a certain village, named Harisarman.
Who acts: certain Brahman · What happens: be, name · To what, where: certain village
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 (certain Brahman), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Brahman | det |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Brahman | amod |
| 5 | Brahman | brahman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 village | amod |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 named | punct |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 village | acl |
| 12 | Harisarman | Harisarman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 named | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a certain Brahman | a certain village; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a certain village not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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