Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 73
One day, at the end of the hot hours, the Brahman, overcome by the heat, lay down under the shadow of a tree to have a doze.
Who acts: you · What happens: overcome, lay down, have, shadow · To what, where: Brahman, shadow, doze, tree
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 (you), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hours | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hours | det |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hours | amod |
| 10 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 end | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Brahman | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Brahman | det |
| 13 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hours | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 overcome | punct |
| 15 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Brahman | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 heat | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heat | det |
| 18 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 overcome | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 lay | advmod |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 shadow | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shadow | det |
| 24 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shadow | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 have | mark |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 lay | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 doze | det |
| 31 | doze | doze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | participle | the Brahman not said here | by the heat | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | lay down | imperative | you not said here | the shadow of a tree | day | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under shadow=Destination | ||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | you not said here | a doze | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doze=Patient | ||||
| 4 | shadow | a tree | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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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