Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 135
Some of the Jatakas bear a remarkable resemblance to some of the most familiar FABLES OF ÆSOP.
Who acts: Some · What happens: bear · To what, where: remarkable resemblance
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 (Some), 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 | 5 bear | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Jatakas | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Jatakas | det |
| 4 | Jatakas | jataka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 resemblance | det |
| 7 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 resemblance | amod |
| 8 | resemblance | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bear | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 some | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 resemblance | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 FABLES | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 FABLES | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 familiar | advmod |
| 14 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 FABLES | amod |
| 15 | FABLES | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 some | nmod |
| 16 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 17 ÆSOP | case |
| 17 | ÆSOP | ÆSOP | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 FABLES | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present | Some | a remarkable resemblance | to some | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=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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