Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 65
There should be enough material to determine the vexed question of the relations between the European and the Indian collections.
Who acts: enough material · What happens: be, determine, vex, question · To what, where: vexed question, relations
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 (enough material), 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 | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 material | amod |
| 5 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 determine | mark |
| 7 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 material | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 question | det |
| 9 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 question | amod |
| 10 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 determine | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 relations | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 relations | det |
| 13 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 question | nmod |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 European | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 European | det |
| 16 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 relations | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 collections | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 collections | det |
| 19 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 collections | amod |
| 20 | collections | collection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 European | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | should | enough material | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | determine | to-infinitive | enough material not said here | the vexed question of the relations between the European and the Indian collections | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic | ||||
| 3 | vex | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | question | the relations between the European and the Indian collections | nom question «communication transitive»: of=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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