Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 69
Once upon a time, when Brahma-datta was reigning in Benares, the future Buddha returned to life as his son and heir.
Who acts: Brahma datta · What happens: reign, return · To what, where: Benares
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brahma datta), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 returned | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reigning | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 reigning | advmod |
| 7 | Brahma | Brahma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 datta | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Brahma | punct |
| 9 | datta | datta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reigning | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reigning | aux |
| 11 | reigning | reign | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Benares | case |
| 13 | Benares | Benares | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 reigning | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Buddha | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Buddha | det |
| 16 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Buddha | amod |
| 17 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Benares | appos |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 son | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 heir | cc |
| 25 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | past · progressive | Brahma datta | Benares | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | to life result; as datta's son and heir; once property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to life=Result |
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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