Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 58
When the whole town was assembled, just at the dusk of evening, Gangazara sat dumb for a moment, and thought upon the Tiger King and the Serpent King, who came with all their armies.
Who acts: Gangazara, Tiger King · What happens: assemble, sit, think, come · To what, where: whole town
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 (Gangazara, Tiger King), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 6 assembled | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 town | amod |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 assembled | aux:pass |
| 6 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sat | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dusk | punct |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 dusk | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dusk | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dusk | det |
| 11 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assembled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 evening | case |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dusk | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 assembled | punct |
| 15 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | nsubj |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sat | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 moment | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 moment | det |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thought | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thought | cc |
| 23 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sat | conj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 King | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 26 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 King | compound |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 King | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 30 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 King | compound |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 King | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 came | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 King | acl:relcl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 armies | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 armies | det:predet |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 armies | nmod:poss |
| 38 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 came | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · passive | the whole town | dusk | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Gangazara | moment | dumb property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Gangazara not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | the Tiger King and the Serpent King | with king's armies | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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