More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 10

Gotham is the English representative, and as witticisms call to mind well-known wits, so Gotham has had heaped on its head all the stupidities of the Indo-European world.

Who acts: Gotham · What happens: be, call, mind, know, have, heap · To what, where: English representative, known wits, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gotham), 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	Gotham	Gotham	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 representative	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 representative	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 representative	det
4	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 representative	amod
5	representative	representative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 call	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 call	cc
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 witticisms	case
9	witticisms	witticism	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 call	obl
10	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 representative	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 mind	mark
12	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 call	xcomp
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 known	advmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 well	punct
15	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 wits	amod
16	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mind	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heaped	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 heaped	advmod
19	Gotham	Gotham	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 heaped	nsubj
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 heaped	aux
21	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 heaped	parataxis
22	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 representative	parataxis
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heaped	obl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 stupidities	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stupidities	det
28	stupidities	stupidity	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 heaped	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	34 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
31	Indo	Indo	X	_	33 European	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Indo	punct
33	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 world	amod
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stupidities	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 representative	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Gotham	the English representative			tree rules
2	call	present				as witticisms	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mind	to-infinitive		known wits			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Theme
4	know	participle				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	participle					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	heap	present · perfect	Gotham		representative's head		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on head=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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