Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 48

At the same time he observed that these last had placed their weapons on the ground, in the assurance of having thoroughly cowed the traders, who were now commencing to dance.

Who acts: manner, assurance, traders · What happens: observe, place, have, cow, commence, dance · To what, where: same time, weapons, ground, traders

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 (manner, assurance, traders), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 observed	nsubj
6	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 time	acl:relcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 last	mark
8	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 last	nsubj
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 observed	xcomp
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placed	aux
11	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 weapons	nmod:poss
13	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 placed	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 assurance	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 assurance	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 assurance	det
20	assurance	assurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cowed	nsubj
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 having	mark
22	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 assurance	acl
23	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	24 cowed	advmod
24	cowed	cow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placed	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 traders	det
26	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cowed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 commencing	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 commencing	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 commencing	aux
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 commencing	advmod
31	commencing	commence	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 traders	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 dance	mark
33	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 commencing	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	observe	past	manner	the same time not said here			last property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent time=Topic
2	place	past · perfect		merchants's weapons	the ground	time		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme on ground=Destination
3	have	gerund	the assurance not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cow	past	the assurance	the traders			thoroughly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus trader=Experiencer
5	commence	past · progressive	the traders			now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	dance	to-infinitive	the traders not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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