Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 92
The elder brother took the corpse to the nearest Ganesa temple and called upon him.
Who acts: elder brother · What happens: take, call · To what, where: corpse, nearest Ganesa temple · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 corpse | det |
| 6 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 temple | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 temple | det |
| 9 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 temple | amod |
| 10 | Ganesa | Ganesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 temple | compound |
| 11 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the elder brother | the corpse | the nearest Ganesa temple | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme to temple=Destination | |||
| 2 | call | past | the elder brother not said here | upon brother | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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