Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 62

The three thieves, glorying in their victory, and little understanding the meaning of the song and the intentions of the dancers, were proudly seated chewing betel and tobacco.

Who acts: three thieves · What happens: glory, understand, seat, chew, mean, intend · To what, where: victory, meaning, intentions, betel, song, dancers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (three thieves), 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	3 thieves	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thieves	nummod
3	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glorying	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 glorying	punct
5	glorying	glory	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 victory	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 victory	nmod:poss
8	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glorying	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 understanding	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 understanding	cc
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 understanding	amod
12	understanding	understand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 glorying	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 meaning	det
14	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 understanding	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 song	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 song	det
17	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meaning	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 intentions	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 intentions	det
20	intentions	intention	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seated	nsubj:pass
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 dancers	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dancers	det
23	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 intentions	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 intentions	punct
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seated	aux:pass
26	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	27 seated	advmod
27	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 understanding	ccomp
28	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 seated	xcomp
29	betel	betel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chewing	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tobacco	cc
31	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 betel	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glorying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	glory	gerund	the three thieves		thieves's victory		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	understand	gerund	the three thieves not said here	the meaning of the song			tree rules
3	seat	past · passive		the intentions of the dancers		proudly property	tree rules
4	chew	gerund		betel and tobacco			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent betel=Patient
5	mean			the song			nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	intend			the dancers			nom intention «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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