Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 115

"Last night," replied the fakir, "we were sitting here by this tomb worshipping Khuda, when a ghoul, dressed as a princess, came and exhumed a body that had been buried a few days ago, and began to eat it.

Who acts: fakir, we, ghoul · What happens: reply, sit, worshipp, dress, come, exhume · To what, where: Khuda, ghoul, body · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fakir, we, ghoul), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
2	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fakir	det
8	fakir	fakir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sitting	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 sitting	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sitting	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sitting	aux
13	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 replied	advcl
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sitting	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 tomb	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 tomb	det
17	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sitting	obl
18	worshipping	worshipp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sitting	advcl
19	Khuda	Khuda	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 worshipping	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 came	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ghoul	det
23	ghoul	ghoul	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dressed	punct
25	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ghoul	acl
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 princess	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 princess	det
28	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dressed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 princess	punct
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Khuda	acl:relcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 exhumed	cc
32	exhumed	exhume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 came	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 body	det
34	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 exhumed	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 buried	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 buried	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 buried	aux:pass
38	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 body	acl:relcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 days	det
40	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 days	amod
41	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 ago	obl:unmarked
42	ago	ago	ADV	_	38 buried	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 began	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 began	cc
45	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 replied	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 eat	mark
47	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 began	xcomp
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 eat	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the fakir				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit in a quote	past · progressive	we		here	by this tomb	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tomb=Location
3	worshipp in a quote	gerund	we not said here	Khuda			tree rules
4	dress in a quote	participle		a ghoul not said here		as a princess	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come in a quote	past	a ghoul				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	exhume in a quote	past	a ghoul not said here	a body			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient
7	bury in a quote	past · perfect · passive		a body		ago property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	begin in a quote	past	the fakir not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	the fakir not said here	body			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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