Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 14

Mr. Gomme gives evidence that it was an archaic custom to put oldsters to death after they had become helpless.

Who acts: Gomme, evidence, oldsters · What happens: give, be, put, become · To what, where: evidence, archaic custom, oldsters

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gomme, evidence, oldsters), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Gomme	nmod:desc
2	Gomme	Gomme	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 custom	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 custom	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 custom	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 custom	det
9	archaic	archaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 custom	amod
10	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evidence	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 put	mark
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gives	advcl
13	oldsters	oldster	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 death	case
15	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 become	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 become	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 become	aux
19	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 put	advcl
20	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 become	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	Gomme Mr.	evidence		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme
2	is a	past	evidence	a archaic custom		tree rules
3	put	to-infinitive	Gomme Mr. not said here	oldsters	to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent oldster=Goal
4	become	past · perfect	oldsters = oldster		helpless property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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