Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 73
What, however, he has failed to show is that some of these may not have been carried out to the Eastern world by Europeans.
Who acts: M. · What happens: fail, not show, not be
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 (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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 failed | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 failed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 failed | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 failed | aux |
| 7 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 show | mark |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 failed | xcomp |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 carried | cop |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 carried | mark |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 these | case |
| 14 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 some | nmod |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 carried | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 carried | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 carried | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 carried | aux:pass |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 carried | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 23 | Eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 world | amod |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Europeans | case |
| 26 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 carried | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | present · perfect | M. | however property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not show | to-infinitive | M. not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | may · present · perfect · passive | to the Eastern world; by Europeans; carry 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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