Indian Fairy Tales, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., sentence 15
Krohn comes to the conclusion that the majority of the oral forms of the tale come from literary versions (p. 47), whereas the _Reynard_ form has only had influence on a single variant.
Who acts: Krohn, majority · What happens: come, have, form · To what, where: conclusion, literary versions, Reynard form, tale
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Krohn, majority), 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 | Krohn | Krohn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 conclusion | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 conclusion | det |
| 5 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 majority | det |
| 8 | majority | majority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 forms | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forms | det |
| 11 | oral | oral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 forms | amod |
| 12 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 majority | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tale | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tale | det |
| 15 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forms | nmod |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 comes | advcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 versions | case |
| 18 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 versions | amod |
| 19 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 come | obl |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 p. | punct |
| 21 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 versions | appos |
| 22 | 47 | 47 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 p. | flat |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 p. | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 25 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 33 had | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 form | det |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 form | punct |
| 28 | Reynard | Reynard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 form | compound |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Reynard | punct |
| 30 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 had | obj |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 had | aux |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 had | advmod |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 come | advcl |
| 34 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 had | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 variant | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 variant | det |
| 37 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 variant | amod |
| 38 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 influence | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Krohn | the conclusion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come | present | the majority of the oral forms of the tale | literary versions | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from version=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | the majority of the oral forms of the tale not said here | the Reynard form | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | form | the tale | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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