Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 116

He wandered about begging with his family, and at last he reached a certain city, and entered the service of a rich householder called Sthuladatta.

Who acts: Brahman · What happens: wander, beg, reach, enter, call, service · To what, where: certain city, last, service, rich householder · Speech: someone speaks here

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	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	SCONJ	_	4 begging	mark
4	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wandered	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 family	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 family	nmod:poss
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begging	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reached	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 reached	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reached	nsubj
13	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 city	det
15	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 city	amod
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 entered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 entered	cc
19	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 service	det
21	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 entered	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 householder	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 householder	det
24	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 householder	amod
25	householder	householder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 service	nmod
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 householder	acl
27	Sthuladatta	Sthuladatta	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 called	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	Brahman				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	gerund	Brahman not said here			with Brahman's family	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	reach	past	Brahman	a certain city	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent city=Theme at last=Asset
4	enter	past	Brahman not said here	the service of a rich householder			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination
5	call	participle		a rich householder not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	service			a rich householder			nom service «act 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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