Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 36

"This also is to be understood, father, if one thinks of the city as the place where everything is to be obtained, and of inhospitable people as worse than the dead.

Who acts: one · What happens: understand, think, obtain · To what, where: This, everything

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 (one), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 understood	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 understood	nsubj:pass
3	also	also	ADV	_	7 understood	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 understood	aux:pass
5	to	to	PART	_	7 understood	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 understood	aux:pass
7	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 father	punct
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 understood	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thinks	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 thinks	mark
12	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thinks	nsubj
13	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 understood	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 city	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thinks	obl
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 city	nmod
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 obtained	advmod
21	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 obtained	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 obtained	aux:pass
23	to	to	PART	_	25 obtained	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 obtained	aux:pass
25	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 place	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 worse	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 worse	cc
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 people	case
29	inhospitable	inhospitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 people	amod
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 worse	obl
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 worse	case
32	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 thinks	conj
33	than	than	ADP	_	35 dead	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 dead	det
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 worse	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	understand in a quote	present · passive		This		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	one		of the city as the place	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	obtain in a quote	present · passive	one not said here	everything		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme

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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