Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 62
Col. Lewin has large numbers, besides the few published in his _Lushai Grammar_; and Mr. M. L. Dames has a number of Baluchi tales which I have been privileged to use.
Who acts: Col., M. · What happens: have, publish, privilege, use · To what, where: large numbers, few, Lushai Grammar, number, Baluchi tales
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 (Col., M.), 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 | Col. | Col. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 2 | Lewin | Lewin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Col. | flat |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 numbers | amod |
| 5 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 published | punct |
| 7 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 10 published | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 few | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 published | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 has | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Grammar | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Grammar | nmod:poss |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Grammar | punct |
| 14 | Lushai | Lushai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Grammar | compound |
| 15 | Grammar | Grammar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 published | obl |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 published | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 has | cc |
| 19 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 M. | nmod:desc |
| 20 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 has | nsubj |
| 21 | L. | L. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 M. | flat |
| 22 | Dames | Dames | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 L. | flat |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 number | det |
| 25 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 has | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tales | case |
| 27 | Baluchi | Baluchi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 tales | compound |
| 28 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 number | nmod |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 privileged | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 privileged | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 privileged | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 privileged | aux:pass |
| 33 | privileged | privilege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 tales | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 use | mark |
| 35 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 privileged | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Col. | large numbers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | ||||
| 2 | publish | participle · passive | the few | Col.'s Lushai Grammar | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | have | present | M. Mr. | a number of Baluchi tales | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | ||||
| 4 | privilege | present · perfect · passive | Baluchi tales | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | use | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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