Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 74

Then the Teacher said: "O Brother, in former days wise men made effort in the place where effort should be made, and so attained unto royal power."

Who acts: Teacher, Brother · What happens: say, make, attain · To what, where: effort, place · 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 (Teacher, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Teacher	det
3	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
7	O	o	INTJ	_	8 Brother	discourse
8	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 days	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	obl:unmarked
13	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
16	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 made	advmod
21	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	nsubj:pass
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 made	aux:pass
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 place	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 attained	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 attained	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 attained	advmod
28	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 made	conj
29	unto	unto	ADP	_	31 power	case
30	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 power	amod
31	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 attained	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Teacher			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	past	Brother	effort	the place	day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product
3	make in a quote	should · passive		effort				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	attain in a quote	participle	Brother not said here				unto royal power	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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