Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 41

The traders had no weapons with them, and so, though they were many more in number, they had to submit themselves to the robbers, who took away everything from them, even the very clothes they wore, and gave to each only a small loin-cloth a span in breadth and a cubit in length.

Who acts: traders, robbers · What happens: have, be, submit, take away, wear, give · To what, where: weapons, number, traders, robbers, everything, clothes

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traders, robbers), 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 traders	det
2	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 weapons	det
5	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 weapons	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 so	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 so	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 more	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 more	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 more	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 more	cop
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 more	amod
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 number	case
18	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 more	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 more	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 submit	mark
23	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 submit	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 robbers	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 robbers	det
27	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 submit	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 took	nsubj
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 robbers	acl:relcl
31	away	away	ADP	_	30 took	compound:prt
32	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 took	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 clothes	punct
36	even	even	ADV	_	39 clothes	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 clothes	det
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 clothes	advmod
39	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	30 took	obl
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 wore	nsubj
41	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 clothes	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 gave	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 gave	cc
44	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 had	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	52 cloth	case
46	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	52 cloth	nsubj
47	only	only	ADV	_	52 cloth	advmod
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 cloth	det
49	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 cloth	amod
50	loin	loin	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 cloth	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 loin	punct
52	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 gave	obl
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 span	det
54	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 gave	obj
55	in	in	ADP	_	56 breadth	case
56	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 span	nmod
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 cubit	cc
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 cubit	det
59	cubit	cubit	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 breadth	conj
60	in	in	ADP	_	61 length	case
61	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 cubit	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the traders	no weapons			with weapons = weapon	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient
2	is	past	traders = trader			number	more property	tree rules
3	have	past	traders = trader					tree rules
4	submit	to-infinitive	traders = trader not said here	traders = trader	the robbers			vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to robber=Recipient
5	take away	past	the robbers	everything			from traders = trader; the clothes obl	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme from they=Initial_Location
6	wear	past	traders = trader	the clothes not said here				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source
7	give	past	traders = trader not said here	a span	a small loin cloth	breadth and a cubit in length		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent span=Theme to cloth=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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