Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 37
A very wealthy old man, imagining that he was on the point of death, sent for his sons and divided his property among them.
Who acts: wealthy old man, son · What happens: imagine, be, send, divide · To what, where: point, wealthy old man, property
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 (wealthy old man, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 wealthy | advmod |
| 3 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 divided | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 imagining | punct |
| 7 | imagining | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 man | acl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 point | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 point | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 point | cop |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 point | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 point | det |
| 13 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 imagining | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 point | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 sons | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sons | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sent | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sent | cc |
| 22 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 property | nmod:poss |
| 24 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 divided | obj |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 divided | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | gerund | a wealthy old man not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | past | son | the point | of death | tree rules | |||
| 3 | send | participle | a wealthy old man not said here | for son's sons | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | divide | past | a wealthy old man | son's property | among friends = friend | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme |
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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