Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 78
A poor blind Brahman and his wife were dependent on their son for their subsistence.
Who acts: poor blind Brahman, Brahman · What happens: be, subsist
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 (poor blind Brahman, Brahman), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Brahman | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Brahman | amod |
| 3 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Brahman | amod |
| 4 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dependent | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wife | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Brahman | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dependent | cop |
| 9 | dependent | dependent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dependent | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 subsistence | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 subsistence | nmod:poss |
| 15 | subsistence | subsistence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dependent | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dependent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a poor blind Brahman and king's wife | on Brahman's son; for Brahman's subsistence; dependent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | subsist | Brahman | nom subsistence «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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