Indian Fairy Tales, VIII. Loving Laili., sentence 13

They are possibly a relic of the days of Aryan conquest, when the fair-skinned, fair-haired Aryan conquered the swarthier aboriginals.

Who acts: eyes, haired Aryan · What happens: be, conquer · To what, where: relic, swarthier aboriginals

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. Loving Laili.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, haired Aryan), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 relic	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 relic	cop
3	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	5 relic	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 relic	det
5	relic	relic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 days	det
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 relic	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 conquest	case
10	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 conquest	amod
11	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 days	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 skinned	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 skinned	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 skinned	det
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 skinned	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 fair	punct
17	skinned	skinned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 relic	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fair	punct
19	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 haired	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 fair	punct
21	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Aryan	amod
22	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 conquered	nsubj
23	conquered	conquer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 skinned	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 aboriginals	det
25	swarthier	swarthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 aboriginals	amod
26	aboriginals	aboriginal	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 conquered	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 relic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	eyes = eye	a relic			day	possibly property	tree rules
2	conquer	past	haired Aryan	the swarthier aboriginals					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aboriginal=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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