Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 72
_This story the Teacher told in Jetavana about a Brother who had ceased striving after righteousness.
Who acts: story, Brother · What happens: tell, cease, strive · To what, where: Jetavana · 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 (story, Brother), 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 | _ | 6 told | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Teacher | det |
| 5 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | appos |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Jetavana | case |
| 8 | Jetavana | Jetavana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 Brother | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Brother | det |
| 11 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 ceased | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ceased | aux |
| 14 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 Brother | acl:relcl |
| 15 | striving | strive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ceased | advcl |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 righteousness | case |
| 17 | righteousness | righteousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 striving | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | this story | Jetavana | about a Brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about brother=Topic | |||
| 2 | cease | past · perfect | a Brother | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | strive | gerund | a Brother not said here | after righteousness | 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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