Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 46
There was, among the ten merchants, one who was very clever.
Who acts: ten merchants · What happens: be
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 (ten merchants), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 merchants | punct |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 merchants | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merchants | det |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 merchants | nummod |
| 7 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 merchants | appos |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 clever | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 clever | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 clever | advmod |
| 13 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the ten merchants | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | clever property | 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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