Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 64

_Tâ tai tôm_ had left the lips of the singer; and, before _tadingana_ was out of them, the traders separated into parties of three, and each party pounced upon a thief.

Who acts: _ · What happens: leave, be, separate, pounce · To what, where: Tâ, traders, parties, party, thief

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 (_), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Tâ	punct
2	Tâ	Tâ	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 left	nsubj:pass
3	tai	tai	X	_	4 tôm	compound
4	tôm	tôm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tâ	appos
5	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tâ	flat
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lips	det
9	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 left	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 singer	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 singer	det
12	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lips	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tadingana	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tadingana	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tadingana	punct
16	before	before	ADP	_	18 tadingana	case
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 tadingana	punct
18	tadingana	tadingana	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	parataxis
19	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 them	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 them	cop
21	out	out	ADP	_	23 them	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tadingana	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 traders	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 traders	det
26	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tadingana	appos
27	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 traders	acl
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 parties	case
29	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 separated	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 three	case
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 parties	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 party	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 party	cc
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 party	det
35	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tadingana	conj
36	pounced	pounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 party	acl
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 thief	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 thief	det
39	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pounced	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect · passive		Tâ			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme lip=Attribute
2	is	past	_			out lips = lip	tree rules
3	separate	participle		the traders not said here	parties of three		vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	pounce	participle		each party not said here	a thief		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon thief=Trajectory

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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