Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 70
And when the day came for choosing a name, they called him Prince Brahma-datta.
Who acts: day, voices · What happens: come, choose, call · To what, where: name, datta · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (day, voices), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 choosing | mark |
| 7 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 choosing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | obj |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 datta | compound |
| 15 | Brahma | brahma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 datta | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Brahma | punct |
| 17 | datta | datta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | choose | gerund | the day not said here | a name | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | past | voices = voice | datta | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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