Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 20

He had not gone far before he came across some herdsmen quarrelling over a dog, that some of them wished to kill. "

Who acts: son, herdsmen, some · What happens: not go, come, quarrell, wish, kill · To what, where: herdsmen

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 (son, herdsmen, some), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
9	across	across	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 herdsmen	det
11	herdsmen	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	obj
12	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 herdsmen	acl
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 dog	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dog	det
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quarrelling	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wished	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 wished	mark
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 wished	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 some	nmod
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 kill	mark
23	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wished	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	son		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	son	some herdsmen	across property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herdsman=Theme
3	quarrell	gerund	some herdsmen not said here		over a dog	tree rules
4	wish	past	some			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	some not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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