Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 6
The Bodhisatta was at one time born in the region of Himavanta as a white crane; now Brahmadatta was at that time reigning in Benares.
Who acts: Bodhisatta, Brahmadatta, time · What happens: be, bear, reign · To what, where: one time, region, Benares
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 (Bodhisatta, Brahmadatta, time), 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 Bodhisatta | det |
| 2 | Bodhisatta | Bodhisatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 time | nummod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 region | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 region | det |
| 10 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Himavanta | case |
| 12 | Himavanta | Himavanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 region | nmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 crane | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crane | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 crane | amod |
| 16 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 time | advmod |
| 19 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 time | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | cop |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | conj |
| 24 | reigning | reign | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 time | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Benares | case |
| 26 | Benares | Benares | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 reigning | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Bodhisatta | at one time and that time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | one time and that time not said here | the region of Himavanta | as a white crane | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is | past | Brahmadatta | at that time; now | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reign | gerund | that time not said here | Benares | 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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