Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 27
I should add that the mere conception of an external soul occurs in the oldest Egyptian tale of "The Two Brothers," but the wrappings are absent.
Who acts: I, mere conception, wrappings, Two Brothers · What happens: add, occur, be, conceive, tell · To what, where: oldest Egyptian tale, external soul · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, mere conception, wrappings, Two Brothers), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 add | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 add | aux |
| 3 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 occurs | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 conception | det |
| 6 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 conception | amod |
| 7 | conception | conception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 occurs | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 soul | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 soul | det |
| 10 | external | external | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 soul | amod |
| 11 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conception | nmod |
| 12 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 add | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tale | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tale | det |
| 15 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 tale | amod |
| 16 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tale | amod |
| 17 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 occurs | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Brothers | case |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Brothers | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Brothers | det |
| 21 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 Brothers | nummod |
| 22 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 tale | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Brothers | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Brothers | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 absent | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wrappings | det |
| 27 | wrappings | wrapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 absent | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 absent | cop |
| 29 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Brothers | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 add | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | should | I | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | occur | present | the mere conception of a external soul | the oldest Egyptian tale of the Two Brothers | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tale=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the wrappings | absent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | conceive | a external soul | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | tell | the Two Brothers | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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