Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 39
The need of catering for the young ones has restricted my selection from the well-named "Ocean of the Streams of Story," _Katha-Sarit Sagara_ of Somadeva.
Who acts: need, my · What happens: cater, restrict, name, select · To what, where: need, named Ocean
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 (need, my), 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 need | det |
| 2 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restricted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 catering | mark |
| 4 | catering | cater | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 need | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ones | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ones | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ones | amod |
| 8 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 catering | obl |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 restricted | aux |
| 10 | restricted | restrict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 selection | nmod:poss |
| 12 | selection | selection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restricted | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Ocean | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Ocean | det |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 named | advmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 well | punct |
| 17 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Ocean | amod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 named | punct |
| 19 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 restricted | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Streams | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Streams | det |
| 22 | Streams | Stream | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Ocean | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Story | case |
| 24 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Streams | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 _ | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 _ | punct |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 Sarit | punct |
| 28 | Katha | Katha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Sarit | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Katha | punct |
| 30 | Sarit | Sarit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 _ | compound |
| 31 | Sagara | Sagara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 _ | compound |
| 32 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 restricted | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Somadeva | case |
| 34 | Somadeva | Somadeva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 _ | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 restricted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cater | gerund | the need not said here | for the young ones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | restrict | present · perfect · passive | the need | the named Ocean of the Streams of Story | Sarit Sagara _ of Somadeva obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | participle | well property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | select | my | nom selection «act transitive»: poss=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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