Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 21
The Hebrew form uses the lion, not the wolf, as the ingrate, which enables us to decide on the Indian _provenance_ of the Midrashic version.
Who acts: Hebrew form · What happens: use, enable, decide · To what, where: lion, us
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 (Hebrew form), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 form | det |
| 2 | Hebrew | hebrew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 form | amod |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uses | nsubj |
| 4 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lion | det |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uses | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wolf | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 wolf | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wolf | det |
| 10 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lion | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ingrate | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 ingrate | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ingrate | det |
| 14 | ingrate | ingrate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 uses | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 enables | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 enables | nsubj |
| 17 | enables | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ingrate | parataxis |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 enables | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 decide | mark |
| 20 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 enables | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 provenance | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 provenance | det |
| 23 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 provenance | amod |
| 24 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 provenance | compound |
| 25 | provenance | provenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 decide | obl |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 version | punct |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 version | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 version | det |
| 29 | Midrashic | Midrashic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 version | compound |
| 30 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 decide | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | the Hebrew form | the lion and the wolf | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | enable | present | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | decide | to-infinitive | of the Midrashic version; on the Indian _ provenance | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on provenance=Topic |
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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