Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 141
You were born a Demon, cruel, blood-bibbing, devourer of the flesh and gore of others, because you did wickedly in former lives.
Who acts: you · What happens: bear, bib, do · To what, where: You, devourer, former lives
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 (you), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | aux:pass |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Demon | det |
| 5 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cruel | punct |
| 7 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 born | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bibbing | punct |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bibbing | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 blood | punct |
| 11 | bibbing | bib | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 born | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 devourer | punct |
| 13 | devourer | devourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bibbing | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 flesh | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flesh | det |
| 16 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 devourer | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gore | cc |
| 18 | gore | gore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flesh | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 others | case |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gore | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 did | punct |
| 22 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 did | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | conj |
| 25 | wickedly | wickedly | ADV | _ | 24 did | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 lives | case |
| 27 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lives | amod |
| 28 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 did | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | You | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary demon=Patient | |||||
| 2 | bib | gerund | devourer of the flesh and gore of others | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | past | you | former lives | wickedly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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