Indian Fairy Tales, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted., sentence 5
The Buddha this time is the Genius of the Tree.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: be · To what, where: Genius
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 (Buddha), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Buddha | det |
| 2 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Genius | nsubj |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Buddha | appos |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Genius | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Genius | det |
| 7 | Genius | Genius | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tree | det |
| 10 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Genius | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Genius | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Buddha | the Genius | of the Tree | 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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