Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 40

At last, though it went sorely against the grain to be of any benefit to a money-lender, the farmer was forced to yield, and from that time, no matter what he gained by the power of the conch, the money-lender gained double.

Who acts: manger, benefit, farmer, lender · What happens: go, be, force, yield, gain · To what, where: grain, farmer, matter, money lender

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 (manger, benefit, farmer, lender), 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	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	conj
7	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	against	against	ADP	_	10 grain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grain	det
10	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	15 benefit	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 benefit	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 benefit	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 benefit	det
15	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 lender	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lender	det
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lender	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 money	punct
20	lender	lender	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 benefit	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 forced	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 farmer	det
23	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 forced	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 forced	aux:pass
25	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 benefit	acl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 yield	mark
27	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 forced	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 time	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 time	cc
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 time	case
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 forced	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 time	punct
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 matter	det
35	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 time	appos
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 gained	obj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 gained	nsubj
38	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 matter	acl:relcl
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 power	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 power	det
41	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gained	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 conch	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 conch	det
44	conch	conch	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 power	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 lender	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 lender	det
47	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lender	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 money	punct
49	lender	lender	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 conch	appos
50	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 lender	acl
51	double	double	ADV	_	50 gained	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	manger		the grain		sorely property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against grain=Location
2	is	to-infinitive					of any benefit; to a money lender	tree rules
3	force	past · passive	any benefit not said here	the farmer		time		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	yield	to-infinitive	the farmer not said here					vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	gain	past	lender	no matter			by the power of the conch	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
6	gain	participle		the money lender not said here			double property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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