Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 115

He was poor and foolish and in evil case for want of employment, and he had very many children, that he might reap the fruit of his misdeeds in a former life.

Who acts: Brahman · What happens: be, have, reap, want · To what, where: many children, fruit, former life, employment

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 poor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poor	cop
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 foolish	cc
5	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 poor	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 case	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 case	case
8	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 case	amod
9	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poor	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 want	case
11	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 case	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 employment	case
13	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 want	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poor	parataxis
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 many	advmod
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 children	amod
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 reap	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 reap	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 reap	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 reap	aux
25	reap	reap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fruit	det
27	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reap	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 misdeeds	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 misdeeds	nmod:poss
30	misdeeds	misdeed	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fruit	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 life	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 life	det
33	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 life	amod
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reap	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Brahman			poor property	tree rules
2	be		Brahman not said here				tree rules
3	have	past	Brahman	many children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	reap	might	Brahman	the fruit of Brahman's misdeeds	a former life		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
5	want			employment			nom want «state transitive»: of=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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