Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 109

At the same time, when Brahma-datta was reigning in Benares, the future Buddha was born one of a peasant family; and when he grew up, he gained his living by tilling the ground.

Who acts: Brahma datta, Benares, datta · What happens: reign, bear, grow up, gain, till, live · To what, where: Benares, future Buddha, living, ground

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 (Brahma datta, Benares, datta), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reigning	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 reigning	advmod
7	Brahma	Brahma	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 datta	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Brahma	punct
9	datta	datta	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reigning	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reigning	aux
11	reigning	reign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Benares	case
13	Benares	Benares	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 reigning	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 born	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Buddha	det
16	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Buddha	amod
17	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 born	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 born	aux:pass
19	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 Benares	acl:relcl
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 born	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 family	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 family	det
23	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 family	amod
24	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 one	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 gained	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gained	cc
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 grew	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 grew	nsubj
29	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gained	advcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 grew	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grew	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gained	nsubj
33	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reigning	parataxis
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 living	nmod:poss
35	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gained	obj
36	by	by	SCONJ	_	37 tilling	mark
37	tilling	till	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 gained	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ground	det
39	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tilling	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 reigning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	reign	past · progressive	Brahma datta		Benares	time	tree rules
2	bear	past · passive	Benares not said here	the future Buddha			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary one=Patient
3	grow up	past	datta				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	gain	past	datta	datta's living			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme
5	till	gerund	datta not said here	the ground			tree rules
6	live		datta				nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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