Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 6
I have edited Sir Thomas North's English version of an Italian adaptation of a Spanish translation of a Latin version of a Hebrew translation of an Arabic adaptation of the Pehlevi version of the Indian original (_Fables of Bidpai_, London, D. Nutt, "Bibliothèque de Carabas," 1888).
Who acts: I, Spanish translation, Latin version, Arabic adaptation, Pehlevi version · What happens: edit, adapt, translate · To what, where: English version
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 (I, Spanish translation, Latin version, Arabic adaptation), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 edited | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 edited | aux |
| 3 | edited | edit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Thomas | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 version | nmod:poss |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Thomas | flat |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Thomas | case |
| 8 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 version | compound |
| 9 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 edited | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 adaptation | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 adaptation | det |
| 12 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 adaptation | amod |
| 13 | adaptation | adaptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 version | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 translation | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 translation | det |
| 16 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 translation | amod |
| 17 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 adaptation | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 version | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 version | det |
| 20 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 version | amod |
| 21 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 translation | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 translation | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 translation | det |
| 24 | Hebrew | hebrew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 translation | amod |
| 25 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 version | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 adaptation | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 adaptation | det |
| 28 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 adaptation | compound |
| 29 | adaptation | adaptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 translation | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 version | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 version | det |
| 32 | Pehlevi | Pehlevi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 version | compound |
| 33 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 adaptation | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 original | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 original | det |
| 36 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 original | amod |
| 37 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 version | nmod |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 Fables | punct |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 Fables | punct |
| 40 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 original | appos |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Bidpai | case |
| 42 | Bidpai | Bidpai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Fables | nmod |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 edited | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 London | punct |
| 45 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 edited | parataxis |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 D. | punct |
| 47 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 London | conj |
| 48 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 D. | flat |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 Bibliothèque | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 Bibliothèque | punct |
| 51 | Bibliothèque | Bibliothèque | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 London | conj |
| 52 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Bibliothèque | flat |
| 53 | Carabas | Carabas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Bibliothèque | flat |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 1888 | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 1888 | punct |
| 56 | 1888 | 1888 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 London | conj |
| 57 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 56 1888 | punct |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 edited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | edit | present · perfect | I | Thomas Sir's English version of a Italian adaptation of a Spanish translation of a Latin version of a Hebrew translation of a Arabic adaptation of the Pehlevi version | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | adapt | a Spanish translation of a Latin version of a Hebrew translation of a Arabic adaptation of the Pehlevi version of the Indian original | nom adaptation «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | translate | a Latin version of a Hebrew translation of a Arabic adaptation of the Pehlevi version of the Indian original | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | translate | a Arabic adaptation of the Pehlevi version of the Indian original | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | adapt | the Pehlevi version of the Indian original | nom adaptation «communication intransitive»: of=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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