Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 88
The lad departed, and was educated by this teacher; he received the Five Weapons from him as a gift, bade him farewell, and leaving Takkasila, he began his journey to Benares, armed with the Five Weapons.
Who acts: lad, teacher, son · What happens: depart, educate, receive, leave, begin, journey · To what, where: Five Weapons, Takkasila, journey, Benares
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 (lad, teacher, son), 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 lad | det |
| 2 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 departed | nsubj |
| 3 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 educated | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 educated | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 educated | aux:pass |
| 7 | educated | educate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 departed | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 teacher | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 teacher | det |
| 10 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 educated | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 received | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 received | nsubj |
| 13 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Weapons | det |
| 15 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Weapons | nummod |
| 16 | Weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 received | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 received | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 gift | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 gift | det |
| 21 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 received | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bade | punct |
| 23 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gift | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bade | obj |
| 25 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 13 received | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 began | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 began | cc |
| 28 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 began | advcl |
| 29 | Takkasila | Takkasila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 leaving | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leaving | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 began | nsubj |
| 32 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 journey | nmod:poss |
| 34 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 began | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Benares | case |
| 36 | Benares | Benares | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 began | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 armed | punct |
| 38 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 began | parataxis |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 Weapons | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Weapons | det |
| 41 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 Weapons | nummod |
| 42 | Weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 armed | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | the lad | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | educate speech: other | past · passive | this teacher | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | receive | past | lad | the Five Weapons | from son; as a gift and bade; farewell property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme from he=Source | |||
| 4 | leave | gerund | son not said here | Takkasila | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent takkasila=Theme | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | son | son's journey | Benares | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | journey | son | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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