The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 93
They are perhaps best known in India today under the title of “Anvari Suhaili.”
What happens: know, title · To what, where: Fables, India, Anvari
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 known | advmod |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 known | amod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 India | case |
| 7 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl |
| 8 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 title | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 title | det |
| 11 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Anvari | case |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Anvari | punct |
| 14 | Anvari | Anvari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 title | nmod |
| 15 | Suhaili | Suhaili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Anvari | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Anvari | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Anvari | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | Fables = fable | India | today | under the title of Anvari; perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | title | Anvari | nom title «communication transitive»: of=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: «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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