Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 50
Even graves, it is said, were broken open, and corpses buried a day or two before were taken out and sent for their revival.
Who acts: corpses · What happens: say, break, bury, take out, send, revive · To what, where: face, graves · 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 (corpses), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 graves | advmod |
| 2 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 graves | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 graves | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 graves | punct |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 broken | aux:pass |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 broken | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 buried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 buried | cc |
| 13 | corpses | corpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 buried | nsubj |
| 14 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 broken | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 buried | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 two | cc |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 day | conj |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 taken | mark |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | aux:pass |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 buried | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 taken | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sent | cc |
| 24 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 taken | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 revival | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 revival | nmod:poss |
| 27 | revival | revival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | face | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | break | past · passive | graves | open property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bury | past | corpses | day | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take out | past · passive | corpses not said here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 5 | send | participle | corpses not said here | for corpses's revival | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | revive | corpses = corpse | nom revival «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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