Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 117

His sons became keepers of Sthuladatta's cows and other property, and his wife a servant to him, and he himself lived near his house, performing the duty of an attendant.

Who acts: sons, wife, Brahman · What happens: become, servant, live, perform · To what, where: keepers, Brahman, house, duty

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 (sons, wife, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sons	nmod:poss
2	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 cows	case
6	Sthuladatta	Sthuladatta	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cows	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Sthuladatta	case
8	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keepers	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 property	cc
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 property	amod
11	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cows	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 servant	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 servant	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 servant	nsubj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 servant	det
17	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 servant	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lived	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lived	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lived	nsubj
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	22 he	nmod:unmarked
24	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
25	near	near	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 house	nmod:poss
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lived	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 performing	punct
29	performing	perform	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 lived	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 duty	det
31	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 performing	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 attendant	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 attendant	det
34	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 duty	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	become	past	Brahman's sons	keepers of Sthuladatta's cows and other property			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	servant		Brahman's wife		Brahman		tree rules
3	live	past	Brahman			Brahman's house	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near house=Location
4	perform	gerund	Brahman not said here	the duty of a attendant			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme

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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