Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 97
Thus said the elder brother, and, giving the corpse to the god Ganesa, he went to prepare himself for that deity's ceremonials.
Who acts: elder brother, brother · What happens: say, give, go, prepare · To what, where: corpse, god, brother · 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, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 4 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 giving | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 said | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 corpse | det |
| 11 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 god | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 god | det |
| 14 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obl |
| 15 | Ganesa | Ganesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 god | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 prepare | mark |
| 20 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | xcomp |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 prepare | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 ceremonials | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 deity | det |
| 24 | deity | deity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ceremonials | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 deity | case |
| 26 | ceremonials | ceremonial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 prepare | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the elder brother | thus property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | the elder brother not said here | the corpse | the god | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme to god=Recipient | |||
| 3 | go | past | brother | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | prepare | to-infinitive | brother not said here | brother | for that deity's ceremonials | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent himself=Product for ceremonial=Beneficiary |
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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