Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 134
He got a loan of five thousand rupees from a brother merchant, leaving the dog as a pledge, and with the money began business again.
Who acts: dog, money · What happens: get, leave, begin, loan · To what, where: loan, dog, business, thousand rupees
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: who acts (dog, money), 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 | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 loan | det |
| 4 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rupees | case |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 thousand | compound |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 rupees | nummod |
| 8 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loan | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 merchant | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 merchant | det |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 merchant | compound |
| 12 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rupees | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaving | punct |
| 14 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 got | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaving | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 pledge | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pledge | det |
| 19 | pledge | pledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaving | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 began | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 began | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 money | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 money | det |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 began | nsubj |
| 25 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 26 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 began | obj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 began | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | dog | a loan of thousand rupees from a brother merchant | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loan=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | dog not said here | the dog | as a pledge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | |||
| 3 | begin | past | the money | business | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | loan | thousand rupees from a brother merchant | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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