More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 9

_--All countries have their special crop of fools, Boeotians among the Greeks, the people of Hums among the Persians (how appropriate!), the Schildburgers in Germany, and so on.

Who acts: countries · What happens: have · To what, where: special crop

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 (countries), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
3	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 countries	det
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 crop	nmod:poss
7	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crop	amod
8	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 fools	case
10	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crop	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Boeotians	punct
12	Boeotians	Boeotian	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 crop	nmod
13	among	among	ADP	_	15 Greeks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Greeks	det
15	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 Boeotians	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 people	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Greeks	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Hums	case
20	Hums	hum	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 people	nmod
21	among	among	ADP	_	23 Persians	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Persians	det
23	Persians	Persian	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 people	nmod
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 appropriate	punct
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 appropriate	advmod
26	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Persians	amod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 appropriate	punct
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 appropriate	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Schildburgers	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Schildburgers	det
31	Schildburgers	schildburger	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 Persians	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 Germany	case
33	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Schildburgers	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 on	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 on	cc
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 on	advmod
37	on	on	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	all countries	countries's special crop of fools Boeotians and the Greeks					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient

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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