Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 23

The verses at the end are the earliest parts of the Jataka, being in more archaic Pali than the rest: the story is told by the commentator (c. 400 A.D.) to illustrate them.

Who acts: verses, commentator · What happens: be, tell, illustrate · To what, where: earliest parts, archaic Pali, story, verses · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (verses, commentator), 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	2 verses	det
2	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 parts	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 end	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 verses	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 parts	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 parts	det
8	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 parts	amod
9	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Jataka	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Jataka	det
12	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 parts	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Pali	punct
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 Pali	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 Pali	case
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 archaic	advmod
17	archaic	archaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Pali	amod
18	Pali	Pali	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Jataka	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 rest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Pali	nmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 story	det
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 told	aux:pass
26	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 parts	appos
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 commentator	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 commentator	det
29	commentator	commentator	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	obl
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 c.	punct
31	c.	c.	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 commentator	appos
32	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 c.	flat
33	A.D	A.D	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 400	flat
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 c.	punct
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 c.	punct
36	to	to	PART	_	37 illustrate	mark
37	illustrate	illustrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 told	ccomp
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 illustrate	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 parts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the verses at the end	the earliest parts		of the Jataka and archaic Pali	tree rules
2	is	gerund	the verses at the end not said here		archaic Pali	than the rest	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present · passive	the commentator	the story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	illustrate not said to happen	to-infinitive		verses = verse			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination

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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