Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 128
When they heard that, many men ran and brought the horse quickly, praising the discernment of Harisarman.
Who acts: kinds, many men · What happens: hear, run, bring, praise, discern · To what, where: horse, discernment, Harisarman
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 (kinds, many men), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 3 heard | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 praising | punct |
| 15 | praising | praise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 brought | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 discernment | det |
| 17 | discernment | discernment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 praising | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Harisarman | case |
| 19 | Harisarman | Harisarman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 discernment | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | kinds = kind | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | run | past | many men | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | many men not said here | the horse | quickly property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | |||
| 4 | praise | gerund | many men not said here | the discernment of Harisarman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discernment=Theme | ||||
| 5 | discern | Harisarman | nom discernment «cognition 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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