Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 61

So the leader by his song meant to hint to his fellow-traders that they were ten men, the robbers only three, that if three pounced upon each of the robbers, nine of them could hold them down, while the remaining one bound the robbers' hands and feet.

Who acts: leader, traders, three, nine · What happens: mean, hint, be, pounce, hold down, remain · To what, where: fellow traders, ten men, traders, one

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, traders, three, nine), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 meant	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 leader	det
3	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meant	nsubj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 song	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 song	nmod:poss
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leader	nmod
7	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hint	mark
9	hint	hint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 meant	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 traders	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 traders	nmod:poss
12	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 traders	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 fellow	punct
14	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hint	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 men	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 men	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 men	cop
18	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 men	nummod
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 traders	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 robbers	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 robbers	det
22	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 men	conj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 three	advmod
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 robbers	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pounced	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 pounced	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 pounced	mark
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 pounced	nsubj
29	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 meant	conj
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 each	case
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 pounced	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 robbers	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 robbers	det
34	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 each	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 nine	punct
36	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 hold	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 nine	nmod
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 hold	aux
40	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 pounced	ccomp
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 hold	obj
42	down	down	ADP	_	40 hold	compound:prt
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 remaining	punct
44	while	while	SCONJ	_	46 remaining	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 remaining	det
46	remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 pounced	advcl
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 remaining	obj
48	bound	bound	ADP	_	52 hands	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 robbers	det
50	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 hands	nmod:poss
51	'	's	PART	_	50 robbers	case
52	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 one	nmod
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 feet	cc
54	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 hands	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	past	the leader by leader's song				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hint speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the leader by leader's song not said here		leader's fellow traders		vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to trader=Recipient
3	is a	past	traders = trader	ten men and the robbers three			tree rules
4	pounce	past	three			upon each	tree rules
5	hold down	could	nine of traders	traders = trader			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	remain	gerund	three not said here	one		bound the robbers's hands and feet	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Attribute
7	sing		leader				nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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