Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 17
But the most famous collection of this kind was that known as GESTA ROMANORUM, much of which was certainly derived from Oriental and ultimately Indian sources, and so might more appropriately be termed _Gesta Indorum_.
What happens: know, derive, term · To what, where: famous collection, much, Oriental, Gesta
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 known | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 collection | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 famous | advmod |
| 4 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 collection | amod |
| 5 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 known | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 kind | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 kind | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 collection | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 known | aux:pass |
| 10 | that | that | ADV | _ | 11 known | advmod |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 GESTA | case |
| 13 | GESTA | GESTA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 known | obl |
| 14 | ROMANORUM | ROMANORUM | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 GESTA | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 derived | punct |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 much | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 derived | aux:pass |
| 20 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 21 derived | advmod |
| 21 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 GESTA | acl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Oriental | case |
| 23 | Oriental | Oriental | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 derived | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sources | cc |
| 25 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 26 Indian | advmod |
| 26 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sources | amod |
| 27 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Oriental | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 termed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 termed | cc |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 termed | advmod |
| 31 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 termed | aux |
| 32 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 appropriately | advmod |
| 33 | appropriately | appropriately | ADV | _ | 35 termed | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 termed | aux:pass |
| 35 | termed | term | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 known | conj |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 Gesta | punct |
| 37 | Gesta | Gesta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 termed | obj |
| 38 | Indorum | Indorum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Gesta | flat |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 Gesta | punct |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | the famous collection of this kind | as GESTA; that property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as gesta=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | derive | past · passive | much | Oriental and Indian sources | certainly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from oriental=Material | |||
| 3 | term | might · passive | Gesta | appropriately property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: gesta=Result |
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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