Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 39

Besides the weariness of old age, the old fellow had to bear with much abuse and cruelty from his sons.

Who acts: old fellow · What happens: have, bear

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 (old fellow), 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	Besides	besides	ADP	_	3 weariness	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weariness	det
3	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 age	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weariness	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 weariness	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fellow	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fellow	amod
10	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bear	mark
13	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 abuse	case
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 abuse	amod
16	abuse	abuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bear	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cruelty	cc
18	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 abuse	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 sons	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sons	nmod:poss
21	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bear	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the old fellow					besides the weariness of old age	tree rules
2	bear	to-infinitive	the old fellow not said here					with much abuse and cruelty; from fellow's sons	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=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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