Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 3
There is scarcely any doubt that the so-called FABLES OF BIDPAI were thus derived from Buddhistic sources.
Who acts: doubt · What happens: be, call, derive · To what, where: FABLES, Buddhistic sources · 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 (doubt), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 doubt | det |
| 5 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 derived | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 FABLES | det |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 called | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 so | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 FABLES | acl |
| 11 | FABLES | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 13 BIDPAI | case |
| 13 | BIDPAI | BIDPAI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 FABLES | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 derived | aux:pass |
| 15 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 derived | advmod |
| 16 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 doubt | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 sources | case |
| 18 | Buddhistic | Buddhistic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sources | compound |
| 19 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 derived | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | any doubt | there | scarcely property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the FABLES of BIDPAI not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | derive | past · passive | any doubt not said here | the FABLES of BIDPAI | Buddhistic sources | thus property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from source=Material |
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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