Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 7
M. Müller's brilliant essay on "The Migration of Fables" (_Selected Essays_, i. 500-76), which is entirely devoted to the travels of the fable from India to La Fontaine.
Who acts: M. Müller · What happens: select, devote, travel, essay · To what, where: brilliant essay, La, Migration
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 (M. Müller), 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 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Müller | compound |
| 2 | Müller | Müller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 essay | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Müller | case |
| 4 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 essay | amod |
| 5 | essay | essay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Migration | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Migration | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Migration | det |
| 9 | Migration | Migration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 essay | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Fables | case |
| 11 | Fables | Fable | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Migration | nmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Migration | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Essays | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Essays | punct |
| 15 | Selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Essays | amod |
| 16 | Essays | essay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Migration | appos |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Essays | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 500-76 | punct |
| 19 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 500-76 | nsubj |
| 20 | 500-76 | 500-76 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 essay | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 500-76 | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 devoted | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 devoted | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 devoted | aux:pass |
| 25 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 26 devoted | advmod |
| 26 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 essay | conj |
| 27 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 29 travels | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 travels | det |
| 29 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 devoted | advcl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 fable | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fable | det |
| 32 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 travels | obl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 India | case |
| 34 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 fable | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 La | case |
| 36 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 travels | obl |
| 37 | Fontaine | Fontaine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 La | flat |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 essay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | devote | present · passive | M. Müller's brilliant essay on the Migration of Fables | entirely property | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | travel | present | La | of the fable from India | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of fable=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | essay | M. Müller | the Migration of Fables | nom essay «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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