Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 115

Curiously enough, the earliest instance of this in Buddhist literature was intended to be a Decameron, ten tales of Buddha's previous births, told of each of the ten Perfections.

Who acts: previous births · What happens: intend, be, tell, instance · To what, where: earliest instance, Buddhist literature, Decameron, previous births, this · 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 (previous births), 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	Curiously	curiously	ADV	_	13 intended	advmod
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Curiously	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Curiously	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 instance	det
5	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 instance	amod
6	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 intended	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 instance	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 literature	case
10	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 literature	amod
11	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 intended	obl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 intended	aux:pass
13	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	17 Decameron	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 Decameron	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Decameron	det
17	Decameron	Decameron	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 intended	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tales	punct
19	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 tales	nummod
20	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Decameron	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 births	case
22	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 births	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Buddha	case
24	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 births	amod
25	births	birth	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tales	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
27	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 births	acl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 each	case
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 told	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 Perfections	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Perfections	det
32	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 Perfections	nummod
33	Perfections	perfection	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 each	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 intended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	intend	past · passive		the earliest instance of this	Buddhist literature	curiously property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is a	to-infinitive		a Decameron and ten tales of Buddha's previous births			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	participle		Buddha's previous births not said here		of each	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	instance			this			nom instance «event transitive»: of=patient
5	tell		Buddha's previous births				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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