Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 5
And when he knew him then to be an ass, the future Buddha pronounced the First Verse:
Who acts: ass, future Buddha · What happens: know, be, pronounce · To what, where: hawker, ass, First Verse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ass, future Buddha), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 knew | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 knew | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | obj |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 knew | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ass | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ass | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ass | det |
| 10 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pronounced | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Buddha | det |
| 13 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Buddha | amod |
| 14 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 pronounced | nsubj |
| 15 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ass | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Verse | det |
| 17 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 Verse | amod |
| 18 | Verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pronounced | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | ass | hawker | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a ass | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pronounce | past | the future Buddha | the First Verse | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Theme |
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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