Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 16
Another Spanish collection of considerably later date was entitled _El Conde Lucanor_ (Eng. trans. by W. York): this contains the fable of _The Man, his Son, and their Ass_, which they ride or carry as the popular voice decides.
Who acts: W., El, this, Ass, popular voice · What happens: entitle, tran, contain, ride, carry, decide · To what, where: Spanish collection, fable
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 (W., El, this, Ass), 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 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 collection | amod |
| 3 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entitled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 date | case |
| 5 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 6 later | advmod |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 date | advmod |
| 7 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collection | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 entitled | aux:pass |
| 9 | entitled | entitle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 El | punct |
| 11 | El | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 trans | nsubj |
| 12 | Conde | Conde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 El | flat |
| 13 | Lucanor | Lucanor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Conde | flat |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 El | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Eng | punct |
| 16 | Eng | Eng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 trans | compound |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Eng | punct |
| 18 | trans | tran | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 entitled | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 trans | punct |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 W. | case |
| 21 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 entitled | obl |
| 22 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 W. | flat |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 W. | punct |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 contains | punct |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 contains | nsubj |
| 26 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 entitled | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fable | det |
| 28 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 contains | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Man | case |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 of | punct |
| 31 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Man | det |
| 32 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fable | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Son | punct |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 Son | nmod:poss |
| 35 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 contains | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 ride | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 ride | cc |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 Ass | nmod:poss |
| 39 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ride | nsubj |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Ass | punct |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 ride | punct |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 ride | obj |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 ride | nsubj |
| 44 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 contains | conj |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 carry | cc |
| 46 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 ride | conj |
| 47 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 51 decides | mark |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 voice | det |
| 49 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 voice | amod |
| 50 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 decides | nsubj |
| 51 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 carry | advcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 entitled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entitle | past · passive | W. | another Spanish collection of date | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tran | El | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | contain | present | this | the fable of the Man | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fable=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ride | present | collections's Ass | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||||
| 5 | carry | present | collections's Ass not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | decide | present | the popular voice | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: 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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