Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 125
Not only now, O Bhickkus, but in a former existence was Devadatta ungrateful.
What happens: be · To what, where: former existence
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: 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 Bhickkus | advmod |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 Bhickkus | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 Bhickkus | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bhickkus | punct |
| 5 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 6 Bhickkus | discourse |
| 6 | Bhickkus | Bhickkus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ungrateful | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 ungrateful | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 existence | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 existence | det |
| 11 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 existence | amod |
| 12 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ungrateful | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ungrateful | cop |
| 14 | Devadatta | Devadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ungrateful | compound |
| 15 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Bhickkus | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bhickkus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a former existence | ungrateful property | tree rules |
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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