Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 84

There he sat down to rest awhile by a well, where the women were drawing water in earthen pitchers.

Who acts: heart, women · What happens: sit down, rest, draw · To what, where: water, earthen pitchers

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 (heart, women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:1427): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rest	mark
6	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	advcl
7	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	6 rest	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 well	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rest	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drawing	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 drawing	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 women	det
14	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drawing	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drawing	aux
16	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 well	acl:relcl
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drawing	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 pitchers	case
19	earthen	earthen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pitchers	amod
20	pitchers	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drawing	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	heart		there	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	to-infinitive	heart not said here			by a well; awhile property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by well=Location
3	draw	past · progressive	the women	water	earthen pitchers		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme in pitcher=Destination

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/84/