Indian Fairy Tales, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted., sentence 12
We can trace them in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic MSS., and a few are extant on Buddhist Stupas.
Who acts: We, few · What happens: trace, be · To what, where: illustrations, Latin, Buddhist Stupas
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, few), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 trace | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 trace | aux |
| 3 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trace | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Latin | case |
| 6 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 trace | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hebrew | punct |
| 8 | Hebrew | Hebrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Latin | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Arabic | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Arabic | cc |
| 11 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 trace | parataxis |
| 12 | MSS | MSS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Arabic | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trace | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 extant | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 extant | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 few | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 extant | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 extant | cop |
| 19 | extant | extant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trace | parataxis |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Stupas | case |
| 21 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Stupas | amod |
| 22 | Stupas | stupa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 extant | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | can | We | illustrations = illustration | Latin | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in latin=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | present | a few | Buddhist Stupas | extant 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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