Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 1

There were probably other Buddhist collections of a similar nature to the Jatakas with a framework.

Who acts: other Buddhist collections · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other Buddhist collections), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 collections	advmod
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 collections	amod
5	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 collections	amod
6	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 nature	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nature	det
9	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nature	amod
10	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 collections	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Jatakas	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Jatakas	det
13	Jatakas	jataka	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nature	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 framework	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 framework	det
16	framework	framework	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Jatakas	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	other Buddhist collections of a similar nature to the Jatakas with a framework			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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