Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 114

The idea of connecting a number of disconnected stories familiar to us from _The Arabian Nights_, Boccaccio's _Decamerone_, Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_, or even _Pickwick_, is directly traceable to the plan of making Buddha the central figure of India folk-literature.

Who acts: idea, Pickwick, plan, Chaucer · What happens: connect, disconnect, be, make, tell, figure · To what, where: number, central figure, Buddha, India folk literature · 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: who acts (idea, Pickwick, plan, Chaucer), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 connecting	mark
4	connecting	connect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 idea	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 number	det
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 connecting	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 stories	case
8	disconnected	disconnect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 stories	amod
9	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 number	nmod
10	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 connecting	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 familiar	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	17 Nights	case
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 from	punct
15	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Nights	det
16	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Nights	amod
17	Nights	Night	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 connecting	obl
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 Nights	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 _	punct
20	Boccaccio	Boccaccio	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 _	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Boccaccio	case
22	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Nights	appos
23	Decamerone	Decamerone	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 _	flat
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 _	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Tales	punct
26	Chaucer	Chaucer	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Tales	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Chaucer	case
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 Tales	punct
29	Canterbury	canterbury	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Tales	compound
30	Tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 idea	appos
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 Tales	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 traceable	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 traceable	cc
34	even	even	ADV	_	36 Pickwick	advmod
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 Pickwick	punct
36	Pickwick	Pickwick	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 traceable	nsubj
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 Pickwick	punct
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Pickwick	punct
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 traceable	cop
40	directly	directly	ADV	_	41 traceable	advmod
41	traceable	traceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 idea	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 plan	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 plan	det
44	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 traceable	obl
45	of	of	SCONJ	_	46 making	mark
46	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 plan	acl
47	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 making	obj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 figure	det
49	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 figure	amod
50	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 making	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	55 literature	case
52	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 literature	compound
53	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 literature	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 folk	punct
55	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 figure	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 idea	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	connect	gerund	the idea not said here	a number of disconnected stories		from the Arabian Nights	familiar property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
2	disconnect	participle						vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	Pickwick				to the plan; directly, traceable property	tree rules
4	make	gerund	the plan not said here	the central figure of India folk literature	Buddha			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset buddha=Beneficiary figure=Product
5	tell		Chaucer					nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
6	figure			India folk literature				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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