Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 65

The remaining one--the leader himself--tore up into long narrow strips a large piece of cloth, six cubits long, and tied the hands and feet of the robbers.

Who acts: remaining one · What happens: tore up, tie · To what, where: long narrow strips, hands

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 (remaining one), 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 one	det
2	remaining	remaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tore	nsubj
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 leader	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leader	det
6	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	appos
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 leader	nmod
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
9	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 tore	compound:prt
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 strips	case
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 strips	amod
13	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 strips	amod
14	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tore	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 piece	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 piece	amod
17	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 strips	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 cloth	case
19	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piece	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
21	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 cubits	nummod
22	cubits	cubit	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 long	obl:unmarked
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 piece	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tied	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tied	cc
26	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tore	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hands	det
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tied	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 feet	cc
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hands	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 robbers	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 robbers	det
33	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hands	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore up	past	the remaining one			long narrow strips			tree rules
2	tie	past	the remaining one not said here	the hands of the robbers and feet					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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