Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 11

From the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom, we seek the garish sun and arid soil of the Hindoo.

Who acts: we · What happens: seek, soil · To what, where: garish sun, soft rain, Hindoo

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 rain	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rain	det
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rain	amod
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seek	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 turf	cc
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turf	amod
7	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rain	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Gaeldom	case
9	Gaeldom	Gaeldom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turf	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rain	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 seek	nsubj
12	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
14	garish	garish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sun	amod
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seek	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 soil	cc
17	arid	arid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 soil	amod
18	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sun	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Hindoo	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Hindoo	det
21	Hindoo	Hindoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 soil	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 seek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	present	we	the garish sun and arid soil of the Hindoo		the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme
2	soil			the Hindoo					nom soil «state transitive»: of=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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