Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 98

Ganesa made over the corpse to his Ganas, asking them to watch over it carefully.

Who acts: Ganesa · What happens: make, ask, watch · To what, where: Ganas, corpse, corpses, deity

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 (Ganesa), 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	Ganesa	Ganesa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 corpse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corpse	det
5	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Ganas	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 Ganas	nmod:poss
8	Ganas	Ganas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asking	punct
10	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asking	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 watch	mark
13	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asking	xcomp
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 watch	obl
16	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	13 watch	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Ganesa	Ganesa's Ganas	the corpse		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	Ganesa not said here	corpses = corpse			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ganesa not said here		deity	carefully property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location

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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