Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 38
This has to some degree weakened the case for India as represented by this book.
Who acts: This, degree · What happens: have, weaken, represent · To what, where: case
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 (This, degree), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 weakened | mark |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 degree | det |
| 5 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weakened | nsubj |
| 6 | weakened | weaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 case | det |
| 8 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weakened | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 India | case |
| 10 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 case | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 represented | mark |
| 12 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 weakened | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 book | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 book | det |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 represented | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | weaken | past | some degree | the case | for India | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent case=Patient | |||
| 3 | represent | participle | some degree not said here | by this book | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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