Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 102

Now, as he left the palace, carrying with him the new-born babe and the mango branch, he met a band of prisoners, and they called out to him,

Who acts: Dhol, prisoners · What happens: leave, carry, bear, meet, call out · To what, where: palace, born babe, band, Dhol

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dhol, prisoners), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 left	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 left	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carrying	punct
9	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 left	advcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carrying	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 babe	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 born	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 new	punct
15	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 babe	amod
16	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carrying	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 branch	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 branch	det
19	mango	mango	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 branch	compound
20	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 babe	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 met	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 met	nsubj
23	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 band	det
25	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 met	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 prisoners	case
27	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 band	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 called	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 called	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 called	nsubj
31	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 called	compound:prt
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 called	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Dhol	the palace		now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
2	carry	gerund	Dhol not said here	the born babe and the mango branch			with Dhol	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Theme
3	bear	participle						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	meet	past	Dhol	a band of prisoners				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Co-Agent
5	call out speech: assert	past	prisoners = prisoner		Dhol			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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