Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 133
He was suddenly reduced to poverty, and had to part with his dog.
What happens: reduce, have, part · To what, where: dog, poverty
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:1187): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 reduced | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reduced | aux:pass |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 reduced | advmod |
| 4 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 poverty | case |
| 6 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reduced | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reduced | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 part | mark |
| 11 | part | part | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 dog | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dog | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reduce | past · passive | dog | to poverty goal; suddenly property | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to poverty=Goal | ||||
| 2 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | part | to-infinitive | with dog's dog | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with dog=Co-Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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