Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 111

I came from my own country to seek service here, and I am now one of the grain merchant's servants."

Who acts: I · What happens: come, seek, be · To what, where: own country, service, one

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 country	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 country	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 country	amod
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 seek	mark
8	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	advcl
9	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seek	obj
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 seek	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 one	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 one	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 one	cop
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 came	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	22 servants	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 merchant	det
19	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 merchant	compound
20	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 servants	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 merchant	case
22	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	I		my own country			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location
2	seek	to-infinitive	I not said here	service	here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme
3	is a	present	I	one		now	of the grain merchant's servants	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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