Indian Fairy Tales, II. Princess Labam., sentence 21
It is only a probability, but we cannot in any case reach more than probability in this matter, just at present.
Who acts: probability, we · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: probability, matter
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 (probability, we), 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 | 5 probability | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 probability | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 probability | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 probability | det |
| 5 | probability | probability | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reach | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 reach | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 reach | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 reach | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 case | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 case | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 case | det |
| 13 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reach | nsubj |
| 14 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 probability | acl:relcl |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 17 probability | advmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 more | fixed |
| 17 | probability | probability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reach | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 matter | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 matter | det |
| 20 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reach | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 present | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 present | advmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 present | case |
| 24 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 matter | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 probability | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | probability | a probability | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | can | we | probability | this matter and present | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent probability=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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