The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 79
‘And on the tree are five great bunches, and each bunch I will give to a separate nation, for the nations in the town are five.
Who acts: tree, I, bunch · What happens: be, give · To what, where: five great bunches, bunch, separate nation, five
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, I, bunch), 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 tree | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tree | cc |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bunches | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bunches | cop |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 bunches | nummod |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bunches | amod |
| 9 | bunches | bunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 five | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 five | cc |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 bunch | det |
| 13 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 five | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bunch | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 nation | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 nation | det |
| 19 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 nation | amod |
| 20 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nations | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 nations | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 nations | det |
| 24 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 give | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 town | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 town | det |
| 27 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nations | nmod |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 five | cop |
| 29 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 bunches | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bunches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the tree | five great bunches | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | each bunch not said here | a separate nation | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bunch=Theme to nation=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a | present | each bunch | five | 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: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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