More English Fairy Tales, LV. Lawkamercyme, sentence 6
_ 1492, introduces the story to illustrate the perplexities of the problem of individuality in a pantheistic system.
What happens: introduce, illustrate · To what, where: story, perplexities, pantheistic system
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1492 | punct |
| 2 | 1492 | 1492 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 introduces | punct |
| 4 | introduces | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 1492 | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 introduces | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 illustrate | mark |
| 8 | illustrate | illustrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 introduces | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 perplexities | det |
| 10 | perplexities | perplexity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 illustrate | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 problem | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 problem | det |
| 13 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 perplexities | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 individuality | case |
| 15 | individuality | individuality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 problem | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 system | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 system | det |
| 18 | pantheistic | pantheistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 system | amod |
| 19 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 illustrate | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 1492 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | present | the story | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | |||||
| 2 | illustrate | to-infinitive | the perplexities of the problem of individuality | a pantheistic system | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perplexity=Destination |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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