Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 82
One day the Brahman had to go to the village, and so he ordered his son to take the milk to the ant-hill.
Who acts: Brahman · What happens: have, go, order, take · To what, where: village, son, milk, ant hill
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 (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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Brahman | det |
| 4 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ordered | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 ordered | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ordered | nsubj |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ordered | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ordered | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 milk | det |
| 21 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 hill | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hill | det |
| 24 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hill | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 ant | punct |
| 26 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Brahman | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the Brahman not said here | the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | order | past | Brahman | Brahman's son | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Brahman not said here | the milk | the ant hill | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to hill=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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