Indian Fairy Tales, VIII. Loving Laili., sentence 4
Majnun and Laili are conventional names for lovers, the Romeo and Juliet of Hindostan.
Who acts: Majnun · What happens: be · To what, where: conventional names
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 (Majnun), 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 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 names | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Laili | cc |
| 3 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Majnun | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 names | cop |
| 5 | conventional | conventional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 names | amod |
| 6 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 lovers | case |
| 8 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 names | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Romeo | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Romeo | det |
| 11 | Romeo | Romeo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lovers | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Juliet | cc |
| 13 | Juliet | Juliet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Romeo | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Hindostan | case |
| 15 | Hindostan | Hindostan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Romeo | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 names | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Majnun and Laili | conventional names | for lovers the Romeo of Hindostan and Juliet | 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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