Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 85
His elder brother was also on his way up to Benares by that very same route.
Who acts: elder brother · What happens: be · To what, where: Benares, way
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 (elder brother), 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 | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 way | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 Benares | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Benares | case |
| 11 | Benares | Benares | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 route | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 route | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 same | advmod |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 route | amod |
| 16 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Benares | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Gangazara's elder brother | Benares by that same route | Gangazara's way | tree rules |
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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