Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 2
When the Hindu reaction against Buddhism came, the Brahmins adapted these, with the omission of Buddha as the central figure.
Who acts: Hindu reaction, Brahmins · What happens: come, adapt, omit · To what, where: these, Buddha
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hindu reaction, Brahmins), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reaction | det |
| 3 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reaction | amod |
| 4 | reaction | reaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 Buddhism | case |
| 6 | Buddhism | Buddhism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reaction | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 adapted | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Brahmins | det |
| 10 | Brahmins | brahmin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 adapted | nsubj |
| 11 | adapted | adapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 adapted | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 omission | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 omission | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 omission | det |
| 16 | omission | omission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 adapted | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Buddha | case |
| 18 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 omission | nmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 figure | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 figure | det |
| 21 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 figure | amod |
| 22 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 omission | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 adapted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Hindu reaction against Buddhism | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | adapt | past | the Brahmins | these | with the omission of Buddha as the central figure | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | |||
| 3 | omit | Buddha | as the central figure | nom omission «act transitive»: of=patient as=obl |
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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