Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 129
Similarly, with each story of the past the Buddha identifies himself, or is mentioned as identical with, the virtuous hero of the folk-tale.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: identify, mention · To what, where: Buddha
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 (Buddha), 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 | Similarly | similarly | ADV | _ | 11 identifies | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Similarly | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 story | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Similarly | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 past | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 past | det |
| 8 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Buddha | det |
| 10 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 identifies | nsubj |
| 11 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 identifies | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mentioned | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 mentioned | cc |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 16 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 identifies | advcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 identical | case |
| 18 | identical | identical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mentioned | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 hero | case |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 with | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hero | det |
| 22 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hero | amod |
| 23 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mentioned | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tale | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tale | det |
| 26 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tale | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 folk | punct |
| 28 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hero | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 identifies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | present | the Buddha | Buddha | similarly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | mention speech: other | present · passive | the Buddha not said here | as identical; with the virtuous hero of the folk tale | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
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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