Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 33
[2] The Jatakas are probably the oldest collection of such tales in literature, and the greater part of the rest are demonstrably more than a thousand years old.
Who acts: Jatakas, greater part · What happens: be · To what, where: oldest collection
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 (Jatakas, greater part), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 collection | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Jatakas | det |
| 5 | Jatakas | jataka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 collection | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 collection | cop |
| 7 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 10 collection | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 collection | det |
| 9 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 collection | amod |
| 10 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tales | case |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tales | amod |
| 13 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 collection | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 literature | case |
| 15 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tales | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 more | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 more | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 part | det |
| 19 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 part | amod |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 more | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rest | det |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 part | nmod |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 more | cop |
| 25 | demonstrably | demonstrably | ADV | _ | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 collection | parataxis |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 years | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 thousand | det |
| 29 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 years | nummod |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 old | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 more | amod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 collection | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Jatakas | the oldest collection | of such tales in literature; probably property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | the greater part of the rest | demonstrably, more property | tree rules |
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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