Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 134

Thus several of the circular figure designs on the reliefs from Amaravati, now on the grand staircase of the British Museum, represent Jatakas, or previous births of the Buddha.

What happens: represent · To what, where: Jatakas

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: 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 several	advmod
2	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 designs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 designs	det
5	circular	circular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 designs	amod
6	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 designs	compound
7	designs	design	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 several	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 reliefs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reliefs	det
10	reliefs	relief	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 designs	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Amaravati	case
12	Amaravati	Amaravati	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 reliefs	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 staircase	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 staircase	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 staircase	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 staircase	det
17	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 staircase	amod
18	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Amaravati	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 Museum	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Museum	det
21	British	British	PROPN	_	22 Museum	compound
22	Museum	Museum	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 staircase	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 represent	punct
24	represent	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 several	conj
25	Jatakas	jataka	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 represent	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 births	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 births	cc
28	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 births	amod
29	births	birth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 several	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Buddha	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Buddha	det
32	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 births	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 several	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	represent	present		Jatakas					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot jataka=Theme

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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