Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 137

On leaving the city their way led through a cemetery where a few people were praying beside a grave and distributing chapatis and kulchas to passers-by, in the name of their beloved dead.

Who acts: few people · What happens: leave, lead, pray, distribute · To what, where: city, way, cemetery, grave, chapatis, passers

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few people), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 leaving	mark
2	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 city	det
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaving	obj
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaving	xcomp
7	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 way	acl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 cemetery	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cemetery	det
10	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 led	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 praying	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 people	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 praying	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 praying	aux
16	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cemetery	acl:relcl
17	beside	beside	ADP	_	19 grave	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 grave	det
19	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 praying	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 distributing	cc
21	distributing	distribute	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 praying	conj
22	chapatis	chapati	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 distributing	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kulchas	cc
24	kulchas	kulcha	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 chapatis	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 passers	case
26	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 distributing	obl
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 passers	punct
28	by	by	ADP	_	32 name	case
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 by	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 name	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 name	det
32	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 distributing	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 dead	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 dead	nmod:poss
35	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dead	amod
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 name	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leaving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		the city				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
2	lead	participle		horses's way not said here		a cemetery		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through cemetery=Destination
3	pray	past · progressive	a few people			a grave		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	distribute	gerund	a few people not said here	chapatis and kulchas	passers		by the name of people's beloved dead	vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chapati=Theme to passer=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/137/