Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 16
The travels of the "Fables of Bidpai" from India to Europe are well known and distinctly traceable.
What happens: travel, know · To what, where: Europe
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 travels | det |
| 2 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Fables | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fables | det |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fables | punct |
| 6 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 travels | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Bidpai | case |
| 8 | Bidpai | Bidpai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fables | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bidpai | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 India | case |
| 11 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bidpai | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Europe | case |
| 13 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 known | obl |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux:pass |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 known | advmod |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 travels | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 traceable | cc |
| 18 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 19 traceable | advmod |
| 19 | traceable | traceable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 known | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | of the Fables of Bidpai from India | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of fable=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | Europe | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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