Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 6
_--The son of seven mothers is a characteristic Indian conception, for which see Notes on "The Son of Seven Queens" in this collection, No. xvi.
Who acts: son, characteristic Indian conception · What happens: be, see · To what, where: characteristic Indian conception, Notes
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 (son, characteristic Indian conception), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 conception | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 conception | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 conception | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mothers | case |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 mothers | nummod |
| 7 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 son | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 conception | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 conception | det |
| 10 | characteristic | characteristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 conception | amod |
| 11 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 conception | amod |
| 12 | conception | conception | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 conception | conj |
| 17 | Notes | Note | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 Queens | case |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Queens | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Son | det |
| 21 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Queens | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Queens | case |
| 23 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 Queens | nummod |
| 24 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 see | obl |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Queens | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 collection | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 collection | det |
| 28 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Queens | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 xvi | punct |
| 30 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 31 xvi | compound |
| 31 | xvi | xvi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 collection | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 conception | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the son of seven mothers | a characteristic Indian conception | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present | a characteristic Indian conception | Notes | on Seven Queens in this collection and No. xvi | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
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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