Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 79
The Brahmans who had skill in divining from such marks beheld the excellence of his, and made answer:
Who acts: Brahmans, such marks · What happens: have, divine, behold, make · To what, where: skill, excellence
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 (Brahmans, such marks), 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 Brahmans | det |
| 2 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 divining | mark |
| 7 | divining | divine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 had | advcl |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 beheld | mark |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 marks | amod |
| 10 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beheld | nsubj |
| 11 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 divining | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 excellence | det |
| 13 | excellence | excellence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beheld | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 his | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 excellence | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 answer | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 answer | cc |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 answer | amod |
| 19 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | parataxis |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Brahmans | skill | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient | ||||
| 2 | divine | gerund | the Brahmans not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | behold | past | such marks | the excellence | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer excellence=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/79/