Indian Fairy Tales, VIII. Loving Laili., sentence 14
The name for caste in Sanskrit is _varna_, "colour"; and one Hindu cannot insult another more effectually than by calling him a black man.
Who acts: name, one Hindu, black man · What happens: be, not insult, call · To what, where: _ varna, Hindu · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (name, one Hindu, black man), 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 varna | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 caste | case |
| 4 | caste | caste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Sanskrit | case |
| 6 | Sanskrit | Sanskrit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 caste | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 varna | cop |
| 8 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 varna | amod |
| 9 | varna | varna | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 varna | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 colour | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 colour | punct |
| 13 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 varna | appos |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 colour | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 insult | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 insult | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 Hindu | nummod |
| 18 | Hindu | Hindu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 insult | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 insult | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 insult | advmod |
| 21 | insult | insult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 varna | conj |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 more | det |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 effectually | advmod |
| 24 | effectually | effectually | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 21 insult | advmod |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 effectually | fixed |
| 26 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 27 calling | mark |
| 27 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 insult | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 calling | obj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 30 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | amod |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 calling | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 varna | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the name for caste in Sanskrit | _ varna | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not insult | can | one Hindu | effectually property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | a black man | Hindu | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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