Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 103

The four fakirs were quarrelling over these four things.

Who acts: four fakirs · What happens: quarrell · To what, where: four things

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four fakirs), 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	3 fakirs	det
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 fakirs	nummod
3	fakirs	fakir	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 quarrelling	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quarrelling	aux
5	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 things	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 things	det
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 things	nummod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 quarrelling	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 quarrelling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quarrell	past · progressive	the four fakirs			this four things			tree rules

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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