Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 13
Another popular collection was that associated with the life of St. Buddha, who has been canonised as St. Josaphat: BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT tells of his conversion and much else besides, including the tale of the Three Caskets, used by Shakespeare in the _Merchant of Venice_.
Who acts: BARLAAM, Josaphat, Three Caskets · What happens: associate, canonis, tell, use, convert · To what, where: popular collection, Buddha, Three Caskets, Merchant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (BARLAAM, Josaphat, Three Caskets), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 collection | det |
| 2 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 collection | amod |
| 3 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 associated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 associated | aux:pass |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 associated | mark |
| 6 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 life | det |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 associated | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Buddha | case |
| 11 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Buddha | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 life | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 canonised | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 canonised | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 canonised | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 canonised | aux:pass |
| 17 | canonised | canonis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Buddha | acl:relcl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 Josaphat | case |
| 19 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Josaphat | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Josaphat | Josaphat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 canonised | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 tells | punct |
| 22 | BARLAAM | BARLAAM | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 tells | nsubj |
| 23 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 JOSAPHAT | cc |
| 24 | JOSAPHAT | JOSAPHAT | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 BARLAAM | conj |
| 25 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 associated | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 conversion | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 conversion | nmod:poss |
| 28 | conversion | conversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tells | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 much | cc |
| 30 | much | much | ADV | _ | 32 besides | advmod |
| 31 | else | else | ADV | _ | 30 much | advmod |
| 32 | besides | besides | ADV | _ | 25 tells | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 tale | punct |
| 34 | including | including | ADP | _ | 36 tale | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tale | det |
| 36 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tells | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Caskets | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Caskets | det |
| 39 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Caskets | compound |
| 40 | Caskets | casket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 tale | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 used | punct |
| 42 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 Caskets | acl |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 Shakespeare | case |
| 44 | Shakespeare | Shakespeare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 used | obl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 Merchant | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Merchant | det |
| 47 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 48 Merchant | punct |
| 48 | Merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 used | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Venice | case |
| 50 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Merchant | nmod |
| 51 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 50 Venice | punct |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 associated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | associate | past · passive | another popular collection | with the life of Buddha St. | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with life=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | canonis | present · perfect · passive | Buddha St. | as Josaphat St. | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | BARLAAM and JOSAPHAT | of Josaphat's conversion; besides property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | use | participle | the Three Caskets not said here | the Merchant of Venice | by Shakespeare | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | convert | Josaphat | nom conversion «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | tell | the Three Caskets | nom tale «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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