Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 32
The Brahmin mourns his |A serpent stung a farmer's son son's death, but next morning as |to death.
Who acts: Brahmin, serpent, son son · What happens: mourn, sting, die · To what, where: snake, death
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, serpent, son 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Brahmin | det |
| 2 | Brahmin | Brahmin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mourns | nsubj |
| 3 | mourns | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mourns | obj |
| 5 | | | | | PUNCT | _ | 8 stung | punct |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 serpent | det |
| 7 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stung | nsubj |
| 8 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mourns | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 farmer | det |
| 10 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 farmer | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | compound |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 death | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 son | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stung | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 morning | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 morning | cc |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 morning | amod |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stung | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 21 | | | | | PUNCT | _ | 23 death | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stung | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mourns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | present | the Brahmin | snake | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer his=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sting | past | a serpent | a farmer's son son's death | morning | as death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus death=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | die | a farmer's son son | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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