Indian Fairy Tales, VI. the Magic Fiddle., sentence 4
A Bonga is the presiding spirit of a certain kind of rice land; Doms and Hadis are low-caste aborigines, whose touch is considered polluting.
Who acts: Bonga, Doms · What happens: preside, be, consider · To what, where: presiding spirit, caste aborigines, touch
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 (Bonga, Doms), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Bonga | det |
| 2 | Bonga | Bonga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spirit | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spirit | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spirit | det |
| 5 | presiding | preside | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 spirit | amod |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kind | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kind | det |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kind | amod |
| 10 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spirit | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 land | case |
| 12 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | compound |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kind | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 aborigines | punct |
| 15 | Doms | Doms | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 aborigines | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Hadis | cc |
| 17 | Hadis | Hadi | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 Doms | conj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 aborigines | cop |
| 19 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 caste | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 low | punct |
| 21 | caste | caste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 aborigines | compound |
| 22 | aborigines | aborigine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spirit | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 considered | punct |
| 24 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 25 touch | nmod:poss |
| 25 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 considered | aux:pass |
| 27 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 aborigines | parataxis |
| 28 | polluting | polluting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 considered | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spirit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preside | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a Bonga | the presiding spirit | of a certain kind of rice land | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Doms and Hadis | caste aborigines | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | consider | present · passive | touch | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
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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