Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 136
So close is the resemblance, indeed, that it is impossible not to surmise an historical relation between the two.
What happens: be, not surmise · To what, where: close resemblance, historical relation
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 close | advmod |
| 2 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 resemblance | amod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 resemblance | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 resemblance | det |
| 5 | resemblance | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 indeed | punct |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 resemblance | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 impossible | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 impossible | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 impossible | expl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 impossible | cop |
| 12 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 resemblance | parataxis |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 surmise | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 surmise | mark |
| 15 | surmise | surmise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 impossible | csubj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 relation | det |
| 17 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 relation | amod |
| 18 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 surmise | obj |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 two | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 two | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 relation | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 resemblance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the close resemblance | indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not surmise | to-infinitive | a historical relation | between the two | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent relation=Eventuality |
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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