Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 4
I should perhaps add that a Prudhan is a Prime Minister, or Vizier; Punts are the same, and Sirdars, nobles.
Who acts: I, Prudhan, Punts · What happens: add, be · To what, where: Prime Minister
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, Prudhan, Punts), 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 | 4 add | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 add | aux |
| 3 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 add | advmod |
| 4 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 Minister | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Prudhan | det |
| 7 | Prudhan | Prudhan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Minister | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Minister | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Minister | det |
| 10 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 11 Minister | compound |
| 11 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 add | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Vizier | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 Vizier | cc |
| 14 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Minister | appos |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 same | punct |
| 16 | Punts | punt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 same | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 same | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 same | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 add | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Sirdars | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Sirdars | cc |
| 22 | Sirdars | sirdar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 same | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nobles | punct |
| 24 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Sirdars | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 add | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | should | I | perhaps property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a Prudhan | a Prime Minister | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Punts | same property | tree rules |
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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