Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 29

_And when the great Teacher, Gautama the Buddha, told this tale, he used to add: "Now at that time the lion was Devadatta the Traitor, but the white crane was I myself."

Who acts: _, Crane, lion, white crane · What happens: tell, use, add, be · To what, where: tale, Devadatta, _ · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (_, Crane, lion, white crane), 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	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 Teacher	cc
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 Teacher	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Teacher	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Teacher	amod
6	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 _	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Gautama	punct
8	Gautama	Gautama	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 _	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Buddha	det
10	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Gautama	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 _	punct
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 tale	det
14	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 used	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 used	nsubj
17	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 add	mark
19	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 used	xcomp
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 Devadatta	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Devadatta	punct
22	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 Devadatta	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 time	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Devadatta	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lion	det
27	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Devadatta	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 Devadatta	cop
29	Devadatta	Devadatta	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 told	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Traitor	det
31	Traitor	traitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Devadatta	nmod:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 myself	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 myself	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 crane	det
35	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 crane	amod
36	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 myself	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 myself	cop
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 myself	nsubj
39	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 Devadatta	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 Devadatta	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Devadatta	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	_ and the great Teacher and Gautama	this tale			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient clause=Topic
2	use	past	Crane				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	Crane not said here				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is a in a quote	past	the lion	Devadatta	now; time	the Traitor nmod:unmarked	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	past	the white crane	_ and the great Teacher and Gautama = _			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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