Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 22
Here we have the track of this remarkable idea of an external soul enclosed in a succession of wrappings, which we can trace from Hindostan to the Hebrides.
Who acts: we, wrappings · What happens: have, enclose, trace · To what, where: track, external soul, succession, Hindostan
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, wrappings), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 have | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 track | det |
| 5 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 idea | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 idea | det |
| 8 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 idea | amod |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 track | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 soul | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 soul | det |
| 12 | external | external | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 soul | amod |
| 13 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 idea | nmod |
| 14 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 soul | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 succession | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 succession | det |
| 17 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enclosed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wrappings | case |
| 19 | wrappings | wrapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 succession | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 trace | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 trace | nsubj |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 trace | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 trace | aux |
| 24 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wrappings | acl:relcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Hindostan | case |
| 26 | Hindostan | Hindostan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 trace | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Hebrides | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Hebrides | det |
| 29 | Hebrides | Hebrides | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 trace | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | we | the track of this remarkable idea of a external soul | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Patient | |||
| 2 | enclose | participle | a external soul not said here | a succession of wrappings | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trace | can | wrappings | Hindostan | to the Hebrides | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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