Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 124
This the Master told while living at Jetavana concerning Devadatta's treachery.
Who acts: Master · What happens: tell, live, concern · To what, where: Jetavana, treachery · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Master), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Master | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Master | det |
| 3 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 living | mark |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 told | ccomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Jetavana | case |
| 8 | Jetavana | Jetavana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 living | obl |
| 9 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 living | advcl |
| 10 | Devadatta | Devadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 treachery | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Devadatta | case |
| 12 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concerning | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Master | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | live | gerund | Jetavana | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at jetavana=Location | |||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | Devadatta's treachery | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus treachery=Experiencer |
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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