Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 27
Besides those already mentioned there are the stories of _Vikram and the Vampire_ (Vetala), translated among others by the late Sir Richard Burton, and the seventy stories of a parrot (_Suka Saptati_).
Who acts: others · What happens: mention, translate · To what, where: those
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 (others), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 2 those | case |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 mentioned | advmod |
| 4 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 are | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 are | expl |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 those | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stories | det |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 are | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Vikram | case |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 of | punct |
| 11 | Vikram | Vikram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stories | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Vampire | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Vampire | det |
| 14 | Vampire | Vampire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Vikram | conj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 those | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Vetala | punct |
| 17 | Vetala | Vetala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 those | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 Vetala | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 translated | punct |
| 20 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 others | case |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 translated | obl:agent |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Richard | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Richard | det |
| 25 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Richard | amod |
| 26 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Richard | compound |
| 27 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 translated | obl:agent |
| 28 | Burton | Burton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Richard | flat |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 parrot | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 parrot | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 stories | det |
| 32 | seventy | seventy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stories | amod |
| 33 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 parrot | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 parrot | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 parrot | det |
| 36 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 translated | parataxis |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 Suka | punct |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Suka | punct |
| 39 | Suka | Suka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 parrot | appos |
| 40 | Saptati | Saptati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Suka | flat |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Suka | punct |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 Suka | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | participle | others not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | translate | participle · passive | others | those | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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