Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 72
He was a farmer, but poor was the return his labour brought him.
Who acts: Haridatta, farmer, labour · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: farmer, return, Haridatta
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 (Haridatta, farmer, labour), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 farmer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 farmer | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 farmer | det |
| 4 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 poor | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 poor | cc |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 farmer | amod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 return | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 return | det |
| 10 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 labour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 return | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Haridatta | a farmer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a farmer | the return | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | Haridatta's labour | the return not said here | Haridatta | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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