Indian Fairy Tales, VI. the Magic Fiddle., sentence 10
This would bring it under the formula of _The Singing Bone_, which M. Monseur has recently been studying with a remarkable collection of European variants in the Bulletin of the Wallon Folk-Lore Society of Liège (_cf.
Who acts: This · What happens: bring, study, bulletin · To what, where: story, formula, Wallon Lore Society
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. the Magic Fiddle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | aux |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 formula | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 formula | det |
| 7 | formula | formula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Bone | case |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 of | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bone | det |
| 11 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bone | compound |
| 12 | Bone | Bone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 formula | nmod |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 studying | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 studying | nsubj |
| 16 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 studying | nsubj |
| 17 | Monseur | Monseur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 M. | flat |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 studying | aux |
| 19 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 21 studying | advmod |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 studying | aux |
| 21 | studying | study | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bring | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 collection | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 collection | det |
| 24 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 collection | amod |
| 25 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 studying | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 variants | case |
| 27 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 variants | amod |
| 28 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 collection | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 Bulletin | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Bulletin | det |
| 31 | Bulletin | bulletin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 variants | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Society | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Society | det |
| 34 | Wallon | Wallon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Society | compound |
| 35 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Wallon | flat |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Lore | punct |
| 37 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Society | compound |
| 38 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Bulletin | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Liège | case |
| 40 | Liège | Liège | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Society | nmod |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 cf | punct |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 cf | punct |
| 43 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Society | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | would | This | story | the formula of the Singing Bone | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | study | present · perfect · progressive | with a remarkable collection of European variants in the Bulletin of the Wallon Lore Society of Liège and cf; recently property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bulletin | the Wallon Lore Society of Liège and cf | nom bulletin «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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