Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 23

Then they came up to him, and made him many salaams, and begged him to give them some food and water. "

Who acts: forehead · What happens: come up, make, beg, give · To what, where: prince, many salaams, food, forehead

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forehead), 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	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 salaams	amod
12	salaams	salaam	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 begged	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 begged	cc
15	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 begged	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 give	mark
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 begged	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 food	det
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 water	cc
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 food	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	come up	past	forehead		prince	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	make	past	forehead not said here	many salaams	prince		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary salaam=Product
3	beg speech: request	past	forehead not said here		prince		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	forehead not said here	some food and water	forehead		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=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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