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Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 19

First he met a Brahman, and to him he gave a cake, asking him to point out the road to Ram; but the Brahman only took the cake and went on his way without a word.

Who acts: friend, Brahman · What happens: meet, give, ask, point out, take, go · To what, where: Brahman, cake, friend, road, Ram, way

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 (friend, Brahman), 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

advmodnsubjdetobjpunctcccaseoblnsubjconjdetobjpunctadvclobjmarkxcompcompound:prtdetobjcaseoblpunctccdetnsubjadvmodconjdetobjccconjcasenmod:possoblcasedetoblpunctrootFirstADVhePRONmetVERBaDETBrahmanPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJtoADPhimPRONhePRONgaveVERBaDETcakeNOUN,PUNCTaskingVERBhimPRONtoPARTpointVERBoutADPtheDETroadNOUNtoADPRamPROPN;PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETBrahmanPROPNonlyADVtookVERBtheDETcakeNOUNandCCONJwentVERBonADPhisPRONwayNOUNwithoutADPaDETwordNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1FirstfirstADVNumForm=Word NumType=Ord3 metadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 metnsubj
3metmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 Brahmandet
5BrahmanBrahmanPROPNNumber=Sing3 metobj
6,,PUNCT_11 gavepunct
7andandCCONJ_11 gavecc
8totoADP_9 himcase
9himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 gaveobl
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 gavensubj
11gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 metconj
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 cakedet
13cakecakeNOUNNumber=Sing11 gaveobj
14,,PUNCT_15 askingpunct
15askingaskVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 gaveadvcl
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 askingobj
17totoPART_18 pointmark
18pointpointVERBVerbForm=Inf15 askingxcomp
19outoutADP_18 pointcompound:prt
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 roaddet
21roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing18 pointobj
22totoADP_23 Ramcase
23RamRamPROPNNumber=Sing18 pointobl
24;;PUNCT_29 tookpunct
25butbutCCONJ_29 tookcc
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 Brahmandet
27BrahmanBrahmanPROPNNumber=Sing29 tooknsubj
28onlyonlyADV_29 tookadvmod
29tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 metconj
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 cakedet
31cakecakeNOUNNumber=Sing29 tookobj
32andandCCONJ_33 wentcc
33wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 tookconj
34ononADP_36 waycase
35hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 waynmod:poss
36waywayNOUNNumber=Sing33 wentobl
37withoutwithoutADP_39 wordcase
38aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 worddet
39wordwordNOUNNumber=Sing33 wentobl
40..PUNCT_3 metpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1meetpastfrienda Brahmanfirst propertyvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brahman=Co-Agent
2givepastfrienda cakefriendvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cake=Theme to he=Recipient
3ask speech: askgerundfriend not said herefriendvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4point out not said to happento-infinitivefriend not said herethe roadRamvn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent road=Theme to ram=Recipient
5takepastthe Brahmanthe cakevn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme
6gopastthe Brahman not said herefriend's waywithout a wordvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location

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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