Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 114

Thus did he declare his resolve, and with a shout he hit at the Demon with his right hand.

Who acts: Bodhisatta · What happens: declare, hit · To what, where: resolve

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bodhisatta), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 declare	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declare	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 declare	nsubj
4	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 resolve	nmod:poss
6	resolve	resolve	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declare	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hit	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hit	cc
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 shout	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shout	det
11	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hit	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hit	nsubj
13	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declare	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 Demon	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Demon	det
16	Demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hit	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 hand	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hand	nmod:poss
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hand	amod
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hit	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 declare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past · do-support	Bodhisatta	Bodhisatta's resolve				thus property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolve=Attribute
2	hit	past	Bodhisatta					with a shout; at the Demon; with Bodhisatta's right hand	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with shout=Instrument at demon=Patient

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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