Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 18

First, it came by oral tradition to Egypt, as one of the Libyan Fables which the ancients themselves distinguished from the Æsopic Fables.

Who acts: Fable, ancients · What happens: come, distinguish · To what, where: Libyan Fables

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. the Lion and the Crane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fable, ancients), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 tradition	case
6	oral	oral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tradition	amod
7	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Egypt	case
9	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tradition	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 came	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 Fables	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fables	det
15	Libyan	Libyan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Fables	compound
16	Fables	Fable	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 distinguished	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ancients	det
19	ancients	ancient	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 distinguished	nsubj
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	19 ancients	nmod:unmarked
21	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Fables	acl:relcl
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 Fables	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Fables	det
24	Æsopic	Æsopic	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Fables	compound
25	Fables	Fable	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 distinguished	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Fable					by oral tradition to Egypt; first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tradition=Location
2	distinguish	past	the ancients ancients	the Libyan Fables				from the Æsopic Fables	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme from fable=Co-Theme

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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