Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 3

Then all the villagers came out with weapons in their hands; and blowing chanks, and beating drums, they went near the field and shouted.

Who acts: villagers · What happens: come out, blow, beat, go, shout · To what, where: chanks, drums, field

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 (villagers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 villagers	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 villagers	det
4	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 weapons	case
8	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hands	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 weapons	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 blowing	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 blowing	cc
14	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
15	chanks	chank	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 blowing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beating	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 beating	cc
18	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 blowing	conj
19	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 beating	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
23	near	near	ADP	_	25 field	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 field	det
25	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shouted	cc
27	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 went	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	all villagers			then	with weapons in villagers's hands; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	blow	gerund	all villagers not said here	chanks				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent chank=Patient
3	beat	gerund	all villagers not said here	drums				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme
4	go	past	villagers = villager		the field			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near field=Location
5	shout speech: express	past	villagers = villager not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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