Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 113
In making Buddha the centre figure of the popular literature of India, his followers also invented the Frame as a method of literary art.
Who acts: followers · What happens: make, invent, figure · To what, where: centre figure, Buddha, Frame, popular literature
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: who acts (followers), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 making | mark |
| 2 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 invented | advcl |
| 3 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 making | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 figure | det |
| 5 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 figure | compound |
| 6 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 making | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 literature | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 literature | det |
| 9 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 literature | amod |
| 10 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 figure | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 India | case |
| 12 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 literature | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 making | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 followers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 invented | nsubj |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 invented | advmod |
| 17 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Frame | det |
| 19 | Frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 invented | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 method | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 method | det |
| 22 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 invented | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 art | case |
| 24 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 art | amod |
| 25 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 method | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | Buddha's followers not said here | the centre figure of the popular literature of India | Buddha | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset buddha=Beneficiary figure=Product | |||
| 2 | invent | past | Buddha's followers | the Frame | as a method of literary art | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent frame=Result as method=Attribute | |||
| 3 | figure | the popular literature of India | nom figure «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: «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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