Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 116

Asvagosha, the earlier Boccaccio, died when he had completed thirty-four of the Birth-Tales.

Who acts: Asvagosha, Boccaccio · What happens: die, complete · To what, where: thirty

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Asvagosha, Boccaccio), 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	Asvagosha	Asvagosha	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 died	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Boccaccio	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Boccaccio	det
4	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 Boccaccio	amod
5	Boccaccio	Boccaccio	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Asvagosha	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Asvagosha	punct
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 completed	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 completed	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 completed	aux
11	completed	complete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 died	advcl
12	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 completed	obj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 four	punct
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 thirty	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 Tales	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Tales	det
17	Birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Tales	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Birth	punct
19	Tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 four	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	Asvagosha and the earlier Boccaccio						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	complete	past · perfect	Boccaccio	thirty					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirty=Eventuality

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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