Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 71
Now in a certain place there lived a Brahman named Haridatta.
What happens: live, name · To what, where: Brahman, certain place
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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 place | amod |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Brahman | det |
| 9 | Brahman | brahman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obj |
| 10 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Brahman | acl |
| 11 | Haridatta | Haridatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 named | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Brahman | a certain place; there | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme brahman=Location | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a Brahman not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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