Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 47

The future Buddha was once born in a minister's family, when Brahma-datta was reigning in Benares; and when he grew up, he became the king's adviser in things temporal and spiritual.

Who acts: Brahma datta, datta · What happens: bear, reign, grow up, become · To what, where: future Buddha, family, Benares, adviser temporal

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 (Brahma datta, datta), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Buddha	det
2	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Buddha	amod
3	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 born	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 born	aux:pass
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 born	advmod
6	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 family	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 minister	det
9	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 family	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 minister	case
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 born	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reigning	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 reigning	advmod
14	Brahma	Brahma	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 datta	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Brahma	punct
16	datta	datta	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reigning	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 reigning	aux
18	reigning	reign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 family	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Benares	case
20	Benares	Benares	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 reigning	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 became	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 grew	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grew	nsubj
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 became	advcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 grew	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grew	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 became	nsubj
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 born	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 adviser	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 king	case
33	adviser	adviser	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 temporal	compound
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 things	case
35	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 adviser	nmod
36	temporal	temporal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 spiritual	cc
38	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 temporal	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		the future Buddha	a minister's family	once property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	reign	past · progressive	Brahma datta		Benares		tree rules
3	grow up	past	datta				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	datta	adviser temporal			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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