Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 37

The city, though crowded with people, was as if dead, as far as you were concerned; while, in the cemetery, which is crowded with the dead, you were saluted by kind friends and provided with bread."

Who acts: city, you, cemetery, kind friends · What happens: be, salute, provide · To what, where: you

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 (city, you, cemetery, kind friends), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crowded	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 crowded	mark
5	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 city	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crowded	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 city	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 dead	case
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 dead	mark
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 concerned	punct
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 far	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 concerned	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 concerned	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 concerned	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 concerned	cop
19	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dead	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 cemetery	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 cemetery	mark
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cemetery	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 cemetery	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cemetery	det
25	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crowded	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 crowded	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 crowded	cop
29	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cemetery	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 dead	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dead	det
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 crowded	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saluted	punct
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 saluted	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 saluted	aux:pass
36	saluted	salute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 crowded	parataxis
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 friends	case
38	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 friends	amod
39	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 saluted	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 provided	cc
41	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 saluted	conj
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 bread	case
43	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 provided	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the city		dead property	tree rules
2	is	past	you		concerned, far property	tree rules
3	is	present	the cemetery		with the dead; crowded property	tree rules
4	salute	past · passive	kind friends	you		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
5	provide	participle	kind friends not said here		with bread	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bread=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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