Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 19
In particular, the majority of the Drolls or comic tales and jingles can be traced, without much difficulty, back to the Indian peninsula.
What happens: trace · To what, where: majority, particular
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 particular | case |
| 2 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 traced | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 particular | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 majority | det |
| 5 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Drolls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Drolls | det |
| 8 | Drolls | Droll | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 majority | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 tales | cc |
| 10 | comic | comic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tales | amod |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 majority | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 jingles | cc |
| 13 | jingles | jingle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tales | conj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 traced | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 traced | aux:pass |
| 16 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 difficulty | punct |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 difficulty | case |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 difficulty | amod |
| 20 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 traced | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 back | punct |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 difficulty | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 peninsula | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 peninsula | det |
| 25 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 peninsula | amod |
| 26 | peninsula | peninsula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 back | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 traced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | can · passive | the majority of the Drolls or comic tales and jingles | particular | without much difficulty | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in particular=Destination |
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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