Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 97

Just then, a servant came in to announce the birth of a daughter to Raja Sarkap, and he, overcome by misfortunes, said, "Kill her at once! for she has been born in an evil moment, and has brought her father ill luck!"

Who acts: servant · What happens: come in, announce, overcome, say, kill, bear · To what, where: birth, Sarkap, father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (servant), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 then	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 then	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 servant	det
5	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 announce	mark
9	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birth	det
11	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 announce	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 daughter	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 daughter	det
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 birth	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Raja	case
16	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 daughter	nmod
17	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Raja	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 overcome	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 overcome	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 overcome	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 overcome	punct
22	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 came	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 misfortunes	case
24	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 overcome	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Kill	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Kill	punct
29	Kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 Kill	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 Kill	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 Kill	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 born	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 born	nsubj:pass
36	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 born	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 born	aux:pass
38	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 Kill	advcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 moment	case
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 moment	det
41	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 moment	amod
42	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 born	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 brought	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 brought	cc
45	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 brought	aux
46	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 came	conj
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 father	nmod:poss
48	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 brought	obj
49	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 luck	amod
50	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 father	conj
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	48 father	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	a servant			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	announce speech: other	to-infinitive	a servant not said here	the birth of a daughter to Raja				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme
3	overcome	participle	servant				by misfortunes	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	say speech: express	past	a servant not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	kill in a quote	infinitive		Sarkap				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	bear in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Sarkap		moment		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	bring in a quote	present · perfect	a servant not said here		Sarkap's father and ill luck			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument father=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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