Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 35

While we were walking over the city we did not see anybody that we knew, and not a soul gave us a scrap of anything to eat, till we were passing the cemetery; but there some people called to us and put into our hands some chapatis and kulchas; so my companion called the city a cemetery, and the cemetery a city."

Who acts: we, soul, cemetery · What happens: walk, not see, know, give, eat, pass · To what, where: city, anybody, scrap, people, cemetery, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (we, soul, cemetery), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 walking	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 walking	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walking	aux
4	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 gave	advcl
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walking	obl
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 city	acl:relcl
12	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 see	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 knew	obj
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 anybody	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gave	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 soul	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 soul	det
20	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 gave	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 scrap	det
24	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 anything	case
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 scrap	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 anything	acl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 passing	punct
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 passing	mark
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 passing	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 passing	aux
33	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 eat	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cemetery	det
35	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 passing	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 people	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 people	cc
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 some	expl
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 people	det
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gave	iobj
41	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 people	acl
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 us	case
43	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 called	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 put	cc
45	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 called	conj
46	into	into	ADP	_	48 hands	case
47	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 hands	nmod:poss
48	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 put	obl
49	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	50 chapatis	det
50	chapatis	chapati	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 hands	conj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 kulchas	cc
52	kulchas	kulcha	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 chapatis	conj
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 called	punct
54	so	so	ADV	_	57 called	advmod
55	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 companion	nmod:poss
56	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 called	nsubj:pass
57	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 gave	conj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 city	det
59	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 called	xcomp
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 cemetery	det
61	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 called	xcomp
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 city	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 city	cc
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 cemetery	det
65	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 city	nsubj
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 city	det
67	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	67 city	punct
69	"	"	PUNCT	_	67 city	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	we			the city	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over city=Trajectory
2	not see	past · do-support	we	anybody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anybody=Stimulus
3	know	past	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	give	past	a soul	a scrap of anything	some people		tree rules
5	eat	to-infinitive	a soul not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pass	past · progressive	we	the cemetery			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cemetery=Trajectory
7	call	participle		some people not said here	us		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to we=Recipient
8	put	infinitive				our hands and some chapatis and kulchas	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
9	call	participle · passive		my companion			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
10	city		the cemetery				tree rules

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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