Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 13
Our proverb, "Do not count your chickens before they are hatched," is ultimately to be derived from India.
Who acts: proverb · What happens: not count, hatch, be · To what, where: chickens, India
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. the Broken Pot.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proverb), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 proverb | nmod:poss |
| 2 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 count | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 count | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 count | punct |
| 5 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 count | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 count | advmod |
| 7 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 chickens | nmod:poss |
| 9 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 count | obj |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 hatched | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hatched | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hatched | aux:pass |
| 13 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 count | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hatched | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hatched | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 derived | cop |
| 17 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 20 derived | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 derived | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 derived | aux:pass |
| 20 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hatched | advcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 India | case |
| 22 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 derived | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Our proverb | your chickens | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hatch in a quote | present · passive | chickens = chicken | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | is | present · passive | India | derive, ultimately 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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