Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 118
One day there was a feast on account of the marriage of the daughter of Sthuladatta, largely attended by many friends of the bridegroom, and merry-makers.
Who acts: feast · What happens: be, attend, account, marry · To what, where: marriage, daughter
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 (feast), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 feast | det |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 account | case |
| 8 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feast | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 marriage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 marriage | det |
| 11 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 account | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 daughter | det |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marriage | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Sthuladatta | case |
| 16 | Sthuladatta | Sthuladatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 attended | punct |
| 18 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 19 attended | advmod |
| 19 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 daughter | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 friends | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 friends | amod |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 attended | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bridegroom | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bridegroom | det |
| 25 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 friends | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 makers | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 makers | cc |
| 28 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 makers | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 merry | punct |
| 30 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 friends | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a feast on account of the marriage of the daughter of Sthuladatta | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | attend | participle | a feast on account of the marriage of the daughter of Sthuladatta not said here | by many friends of the bridegroom and merry makers; largely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by friend=Theme | ||||
| 3 | account | the marriage of the daughter of Sthuladatta | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | marry | the daughter of Sthuladatta | nom marriage «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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