Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 24

It is probable that they were brought over on the first introduction of Buddhism into Ceylon, c. 241 B.C.

Who acts: story · What happens: be, bring over, introduce · To what, where: verses, first introduction, Buddhism

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 (story), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 probable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 probable	cop
3	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 brought	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brought	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	aux:pass
7	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 probable	advcl
8	over	over	ADV	_	7 brought	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 introduction	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 introduction	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 introduction	amod
12	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Buddhism	case
14	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 introduction	nmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 Ceylon	case
16	Ceylon	Ceylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Buddhism	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 241	punct
18	c.	c.	X	Foreign=Yes	19 241	nsubj
19	241	241	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 introduction	appos
20	B.C	B.C	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 241	nmod:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 probable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	story			probable property	tree rules
2	bring over	past · passive		verses = verse	the first introduction of Buddhism into Ceylon	over property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on introduction=Destination
3	introduce			Buddhism into Ceylon			nom introduction «act 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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