Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 87
His people raised him a funeral pyre not far from the field and burnt him to ashes.
Who acts: people · What happens: raise, burnt · To what, where: son, field
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 (people), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 people | nmod:poss |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raised | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pyre | det |
| 6 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pyre | compound |
| 7 | pyre | pyre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 field | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 burnt | cc |
| 14 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 burnt | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ashes | case |
| 17 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 burnt | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | son's people | son | the field | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Patient pyre=Extent from field=Initial_State | |||
| 2 | burnt | past | son's people not said here | son | to ashes | tree rules |
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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