Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 144

Taking the life of living creatures causes birth, as an animal, in the world of Petas, or in the body of an Asura, or, if one is reborn as a man, it makes his life short."

Who acts: Taking, one, birth · What happens: take, cause, be, make · To what, where: life, birth

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 (Taking, one, birth), 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	Taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 causes	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 life	det
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 creatures	case
5	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creatures	amod
6	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 life	nmod
7	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 causes	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 animal	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 animal	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 animal	det
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 birth	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 world	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 causes	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Petas	case
18	Petas	Petas	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 world	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 body	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 body	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 body	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 body	det
23	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 world	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Asura	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Asura	det
26	Asura	Asura	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 body	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 makes	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 makes	cc
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 or	punct
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 reborn	mark
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 reborn	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 reborn	cop
33	reborn	reborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 makes	advcl
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 man	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reborn	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 reborn	punct
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 makes	nsubj
39	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Asura	acl:relcl
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 life	nmod:poss
41	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 makes	obj
42	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 makes	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 world	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 causes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		the life of living creatures		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
2	cause	present	Taking	birth		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition birth=Patient
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	one		as a man; reborn property	tree rules
4	make	present	birth	man's life	short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material life=Product

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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