Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 144
So the merchant and his friends dug about the place, and soon came upon all the stolen property.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: dig, come, steal · To what, where: stolen property
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 (merchant), 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:pg7128:1198): 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 dug | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dug | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 friends | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friends | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 merchant | conj |
| 7 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dug | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dug | conj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 property | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 property | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 property | det |
| 18 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 property | amod |
| 19 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | the merchant and merchant's friends | about the place | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about place=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the merchant and merchant's friends not said here | all stolen property | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon property=Location | |||
| 3 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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