Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 15

He also points out that it was customary for estates to be divided and surrendered during the owners' lifetime, and generally he connects a good deal of primitive custom with our story.

Who acts: Gomme, evidence · What happens: point out, be, divide, surrender, connect, deal · To what, where: customary, good deal, primitive custom

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 points	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 points	advmod
3	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 points	compound:prt
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 customary	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 customary	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 customary	cop
8	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 points	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 estates	case
10	estates	estate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 customary	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	13 divided	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 divided	aux:pass
13	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 estates	acl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 surrendered	cc
15	surrendered	surrender	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 divided	conj
16	during	during	ADP	_	20 lifetime	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 owners	det
18	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lifetime	nmod:poss
19	'	's	PART	_	18 owners	case
20	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surrendered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 connects	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 connects	cc
23	generally	generally	ADV	_	25 connects	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 connects	nsubj
25	connects	connect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 points	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 deal	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 deal	amod
28	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 connects	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 custom	case
30	primitive	primitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 custom	amod
31	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 deal	nmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 story	case
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 story	nmod:poss
34	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 custom	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 points	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	point out	present	Gomme				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	evidence	customary		for estates	tree rules
3	divide	to-infinitive · passive	evidence not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
4	surrender	participle	evidence not said here		during the owners's lifetime		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	connect	present	Gomme	a good deal of primitive custom with our story		generally property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
6	deal			primitive custom with our story			nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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