Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 22
Perhaps nearly one-tenth of the main incidents of European folk-tales can be traced to this source.
What happens: trace · To what, where: one tenth
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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 tenth | advmod |
| 2 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 tenth | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 tenth | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 tenth | punct |
| 5 | tenth | tenth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 traced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 incidents | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 incidents | det |
| 8 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 incidents | amod |
| 9 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tenth | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tales | case |
| 11 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tales | amod |
| 12 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tales | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 folk | punct |
| 14 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 incidents | nmod |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 traced | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 traced | aux:pass |
| 17 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 source | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 source | det |
| 20 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 traced | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 traced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | can · passive | one tenth of the main incidents of European folk tales | to this source | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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