Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 18
A merchant started his son in life with three hundred rupees, and bade him go to another country and try his luck in trade.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: start, go, try · To what, where: son, life, bade, country, luck, trade
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 started | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 rupees | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | compound |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 rupees | nummod |
| 11 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 started | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bade | obj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 try | cc |
| 21 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 luck | nmod:poss |
| 23 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 try | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 trade | case |
| 25 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 try | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | a merchant | merchant's son | life | with hundred rupees | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality with rupee=Subeventuality | ||
| 2 | go | present | bade | another country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | merchant's luck | trade | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality |
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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