Indian Fairy Tales, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., sentence 16

He reduces the century of variants to three type forms.

Who acts: majority · What happens: reduce · To what, where: three type forms

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reduces	nsubj
2	reduces	reduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 century	det
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reduces	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 variants	case
6	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 century	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 forms	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 forms	nummod
9	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forms	compound
10	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reduces	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reduces	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	present	majority				century	to three type forms goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer to form=Goal

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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