Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 15
Good harvests, or bad, the farmer was always poor, the money-lender rich.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 harvests | amod |
| 2 | harvests | harvest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bad | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bad | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 bad | cc |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 poor | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farmer | det |
| 8 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poor | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 poor | cop |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 poor | advmod |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bad | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lender | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lender | det |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lender | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 money | punct |
| 16 | lender | lender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bad | parataxis |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lender | amod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the farmer | always, poor property | tree rules |
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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