Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 15
The earliest selection of these was the _Disciplina Clericalis_ of Petrus Alphonsi, a Spanish Jew converted about 1106: his tales were to be used as seasoning for sermons, and strong seasoning they must have proved.
Who acts: Spanish Jew, Jew · What happens: be, convert, use, season, prove, select · To what, where: Disciplina Clericalis _, tales, strong seasoning, these · 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 (Spanish Jew, Jew), 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 | 3 selection | det |
| 2 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 selection | amod |
| 3 | selection | selection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 these | case |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 selection | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 _ | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 _ | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Disciplina | punct |
| 9 | Disciplina | Disciplina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 _ | compound |
| 10 | Clericalis | Clericalis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 _ | compound |
| 11 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 selection | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Petrus | case |
| 13 | Petrus | Petrus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 _ | nmod |
| 14 | Alphonsi | Alphonsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Petrus | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 converted | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Jew | det |
| 17 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Jew | amod |
| 18 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 converted | nsubj |
| 19 | converted | convert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 _ | acl:relcl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 1106 | case |
| 21 | 1106 | 1106 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 converted | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 used | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tales | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 used | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 used | aux |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 used | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 used | aux:pass |
| 28 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 selection | conj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 seasoning | mark |
| 30 | seasoning | season | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 used | advcl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 sermons | case |
| 32 | sermons | sermon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 seasoning | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 proved | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 proved | cc |
| 35 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 seasoning | amod |
| 36 | seasoning | seasoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 proved | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 proved | nsubj |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 proved | aux |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 proved | aux |
| 40 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 used | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 selection | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Disciplina Clericalis _ | of Petrus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | convert | past | a Spanish Jew | the Disciplina Clericalis _ not said here | about 1106 | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent _=Patient | |||
| 3 | use | past · passive | Jew's tales | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | season | gerund | for sermons | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | prove | must · perfect · passive | strong seasoning | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | select | these | nom selection «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | tell | Jew | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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