Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 77
Once upon a time, when Brahmadatta was King of Benares, the Bodhisatta was born as son of his chief queen.
Who acts: Brahmadatta King · What happens: be, bear · To what, where: Brahmadatta King, Bodhisatta
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 (Brahmadatta King), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 King | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 King | advmod |
| 7 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | compound |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 King | cop |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Benares | case |
| 11 | Benares | Benares | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 born | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bodhisatta | det |
| 14 | Bodhisatta | Bodhisatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 born | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 King | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 son | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 queen | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 queen | nmod:poss |
| 21 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 queen | amod |
| 22 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Brahmadatta King | of Benares | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | Brahmadatta King not said here | the Bodhisatta | as son of son's chief queen | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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