Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 27
The Jatakas have been fortunate in their English translators, who render with vigour and point; and I rejoice in being able to publish the translation of two new Jatakas, kindly done into English for this volume by Mr. W. H. D. Rouse, of Christ's College, Cambridge.
Who acts: Jatakas, English translators, I, two new Jatakas · What happens: be, render, rejoice, publish, do, translate · To what, where: English translators, translation, two new Jatakas, English
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 (Jatakas, English translators, I, two new Jatakas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Jatakas | det |
| 2 | Jatakas | jataka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fortunate | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fortunate | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 fortunate | cop |
| 5 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 translators | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 translators | nmod:poss |
| 8 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 translators | amod |
| 9 | translators | translator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fortunate | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 render | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 render | nsubj |
| 12 | render | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 translators | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 vigour | case |
| 14 | vigour | vigour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 render | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 point | cc |
| 16 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vigour | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 rejoice | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rejoice | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 rejoice | nsubj |
| 20 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fortunate | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 able | case |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 able | cop |
| 23 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rejoice | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 publish | mark |
| 25 | publish | publish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 translation | det |
| 27 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 publish | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Jatakas | case |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 Jatakas | nummod |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Jatakas | amod |
| 31 | Jatakas | jataka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 translation | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 done | punct |
| 33 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 34 done | advmod |
| 34 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 Jatakas | acl |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 English | case |
| 36 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 done | obl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 volume | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 volume | det |
| 39 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 done | obl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 W. | case |
| 41 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 W. | nmod:desc |
| 42 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 volume | nmod |
| 43 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 W. | flat |
| 44 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 W. | flat |
| 45 | Rouse | Rouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 W. | flat |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 College | punct |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 College | case |
| 48 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 College | nmod:poss |
| 49 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 48 Christ | case |
| 50 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 rejoice | parataxis |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 Cambridge | punct |
| 52 | Cambridge | Cambridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 College | flat |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | the Jatakas | Jatakas's English translators | fortunate property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | render | present | Jatakas's English translators | with vigour and point | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rejoice | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | gerund | I not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | publish | to-infinitive | I not said here | the translation of two new Jatakas | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent translation=Result | ||||
| 6 | do | participle | two new Jatakas not said here | English | for this volume by W. Mr.; kindly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | translate | two new Jatakas | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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