Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 22

A Brahmin once observed a snake |----A good man had become in his field, and thinking it |friendly with the snake, who the tutelary spirit of the |came into his house and brought field, he offered it a libation |luck with it, so that the man of milk in a bowl.

Who acts: Brahmin, good man, snake, thinking · What happens: observe, become, think |, spirit, come, bring · To what, where: snake |, field, |, house

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brahmin, good man, snake, thinking), 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	2 Brahmin	det
2	Brahmin	Brahmin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 observed	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 observed	advmod
4	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 \|	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 \|	compound
7	\|	\|	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 observed	obj
8	----	----	PUNCT	_	13 become	punct
9	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 become	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 become	aux
13	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 \|	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 field	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 field	nmod:poss
16	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 become	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 came	cc
19	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 came	csubj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thinking	obj
21	\|	\|	ADP	_	19 thinking	compound:prt
22	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thinking	xcomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 snake	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 snake	det
25	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 friendly	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 spirit	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 spirit	nsubj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spirit	det
29	tutelary	tutelary	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spirit	compound
30	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 snake	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 \|	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 \|	det
33	\|	\|	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spirit	nmod
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 observed	parataxis
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 house	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 house	nmod:poss
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 brought	cc
39	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 came	conj
40	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 brought	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 offered	punct
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 offered	nsubj
43	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 observed	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 offered	obj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 libation	det
46	libation	libation	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 offered	obj
47	\|	\|	PART	_	48 luck	mark
48	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 libation	appos
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 it	case
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 luck	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 man	punct
52	so	so	SCONJ	_	55 man	case
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 so	fixed
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 man	det
55	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 offered	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 milk	case
57	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 man	nmod
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 bowl	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 bowl	det
60	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 man	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	observe	past	a Brahmin	a snake \|		once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent \|=Topic
2	become	past · perfect	a good man	a snake \| not said here	man's field		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient \|=Result
3	think \| speech: other	gerund		\|		friendly property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	spirit		the snake			of the \|	tree rules
5	come	past	thinking		man's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
6	bring	past	thinking not said here	field			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent field=Theme
7	offer	past	Brahmin	field		so the man of milk in a bowl	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent it=Goal libation=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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