Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 97
The Brahman took the pearl, and went back home, cursing the folly of his son.
Who acts: Brahman · What happens: take, go back, curse · To what, where: pearl, folly
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Brahman | det |
| 2 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pearl | det |
| 5 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cursing | punct |
| 12 | cursing | curse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 folly | det |
| 14 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cursing | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 son | case |
| 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 | 14 folly | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Brahman | the pearl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | the Brahman not said here | home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | curse | gerund | the Brahman not said here | the folly of Brahman's son | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folly=Theme |
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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