The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 90
It may also be called “The Father of All Fables.”
What happens: call · To what, where: Hitopadesa · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 called | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Father | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Father | det |
| 8 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Fables | case |
| 10 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Fables | det |
| 11 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Father | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Father | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | may · passive | Hitopadesa | the Father of all Fables xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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