Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 81

On hearing what the Brahmans had to say, they gave him the name of the Prince of the Five Weapons, sword, spear, bow, battle-axe, and shield.

Who acts: Brahmans · What happens: hear, have, say, give, name · To what, where: name, king, Prince · 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 (Brahmans), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 gave	advcl
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 hearing	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Brahmans	det
5	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hearing	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 name	det
14	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Prince	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Prince	det
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 name	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Weapons	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Weapons	det
20	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 Weapons	nummod
21	Weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 name	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sword	punct
23	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Weapons	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spear	punct
25	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sword	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bow	punct
27	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sword	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 axe	punct
29	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 axe	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 battle	punct
31	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Weapons	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 shield	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 shield	cc
34	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	Brahmans = brahman not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	have	past	the Brahmans				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Brahmans not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	Brahmans = brahman	the name of the Prince of the Five Weapons and sword and spear and bow and battle axe	king	shield obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Theme
5	name			the Prince			nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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