Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 55
They had understood his meaning, because they had been trained in trade.
Who acts: leader · What happens: understand, train, mean · To what, where: robbers, trade
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 (leader), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 understood | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 understood | aux |
| 3 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 5 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 understood | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trained | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 trained | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 trained | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 trained | aux:pass |
| 11 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 understood | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 trade | case |
| 13 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trained | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past · perfect · passive | robbers = robber | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | train | past · perfect · passive | robbers = robber | trade | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mean | leader | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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