Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 131
Some of these had been translated by Mr. Rhys-Davids (_Buddhist Birth Stories, I._, Trübner's Oriental Library, 1880), Prof.
Who acts: Rhys Davids · What happens: translate · To what, where: Some
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 (Rhys Davids), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 these | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 translated | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 translated | aux:pass |
| 6 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Davids | case |
| 8 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rhys | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Rhys | Rhys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Davids | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rhys | punct |
| 11 | Davids | david | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 translated | obl:agent |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Stories | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 16 Stories | case |
| 14 | Buddhist | Buddhist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Stories | flat |
| 15 | Birth | Birth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Stories | compound |
| 16 | Stories | Story | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 translated | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 I. | punct |
| 18 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Stories | appos |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 I. | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Library | punct |
| 21 | Trübner | Trübner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Library | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Trübner | case |
| 23 | Oriental | Oriental | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Library | compound |
| 24 | Library | Library | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 translated | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 1880 | punct |
| 26 | 1880 | 1880 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 Library | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 1880 | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Prof | punct |
| 29 | Prof | Prof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Library | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | past · perfect · passive | Rhys Davids | Some | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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