Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 65

Alas! his parents had both become blind from weeping about the loss of their son. "

Who acts: parents, both · What happens: have, become, weep

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, both), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 parents	nmod:poss
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 become	nsubj
7	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 had	ccomp
8	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 become	xcomp
9	from	from	SCONJ	_	10 weeping	mark
10	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 blind	advcl
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 loss	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 loss	det
13	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weeping	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 son	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 son	nmod:poss
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 loss	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	have	past	prince's parents		tree rules
2	become	present	both	blind property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	weep	gerund	both not said here	about the loss of parents's son	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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