Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 110

All that was told of the sages of the past could be interpreted of the Buddha by representing them as pre-incarnations of him.

What happens: tell, interpret, represent · To what, where: that, sages · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. 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.

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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 told	det:predet
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 interpreted	advcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sages	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sages	det
7	sages	sage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 past	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 past	det
10	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sages	nmod
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 interpreted	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 interpreted	aux:pass
13	interpreted	interpret	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Buddha	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Buddha	det
16	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 interpreted	obl
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 representing	mark
18	representing	represent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 interpreted	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 representing	obj
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 pre-incarnations	case
21	pre-incarnations	pre-incarnation	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 representing	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pre-incarnations	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 interpreted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive	that	of the sages of the past	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	interpret	could · passive		of the Buddha	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»
3	represent	gerund	sages = sage	as pre-incarnations of India	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme as pre-incarnation=Attribute

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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