Indian Fairy Tales, II. Princess Labam., sentence 19
The human mind may be the same everywhere, but it is not likely to hit upon the sequence of incidents, _Direction tabu_--_Grateful Animals_--_Bride-wager_--_Tasks_, by accident, or independently: Europe must have borrowed from India, or India from Europe.
Who acts: human mind, it · What happens: be, not be, hit, borrow · To what, where: Europe, India
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (human mind, it), 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 mind | det |
| 2 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mind | amod |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 same | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 same | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 same | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 same | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 likely | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 likely | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 likely | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 likely | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 likely | advmod |
| 14 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 same | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hit | mark |
| 16 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 likely | xcomp |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 sequence | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sequence | det |
| 19 | sequence | sequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hit | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 incidents | case |
| 21 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sequence | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tabu | punct |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 tabu | punct |
| 24 | Direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tabu | compound |
| 25 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 same | parataxis |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 tabu | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 Animals | punct |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 Animals | punct |
| 29 | Grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Animals | amod |
| 30 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 same | parataxis |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 Animals | punct |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 wager | punct |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 wager | punct |
| 34 | Bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wager | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Bride | punct |
| 36 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 same | parataxis |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 wager | punct |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 Tasks | punct |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 Tasks | punct |
| 40 | Tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 same | parataxis |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 Tasks | punct |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 accident | punct |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 accident | case |
| 44 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 same | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 independently | punct |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 independently | cc |
| 47 | independently | independently | ADV | _ | 7 same | advmod |
| 48 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 52 borrowed | punct |
| 49 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 borrowed | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 borrowed | aux |
| 51 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 borrowed | aux |
| 52 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 same | conj |
| 53 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 India | case |
| 54 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 borrowed | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 India | punct |
| 56 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 57 India | cc |
| 57 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 borrowed | obl |
| 58 | from | from | ADP | _ | 59 Europe | case |
| 59 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 India | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | the human mind | by accident; everywhere, independently, same property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | it | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hit | to-infinitive | upon the sequence of incidents | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | borrow | must · perfect · passive | Europe | India | India from Europe obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from india=Source |
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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