Indian Fairy Tales, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., sentence 17

The first occurs in two Egyptian versions collected in the present day, as well as in Petrus Alphonsi in the twelfth century, and the _Fabulæ Extravagantes_ of the thirteenth or fourteenth: here the ingrate animal is a crocodile, which asks to be carried away from a river about to dry up, and there is only one judge.

Who acts: first, ingrate animal, crocodile, one judge · What happens: occur, collect, be, ask, carry away, dry up · To what, where: two Egyptian versions, crocodile, river

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 (first, ingrate animal, crocodile, one judge), 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 first	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 occurs	nsubj
3	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 versions	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 versions	nummod
6	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 versions	amod
7	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 occurs	obl
8	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 versions	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 collected	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Alphonsi	punct
14	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	19 Alphonsi	cc
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 as	fixed
16	as	as	ADP	_	14 as	fixed
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 Alphonsi	case
18	Petrus	Petrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Alphonsi	compound
19	Alphonsi	Alphonsi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 occurs	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 century	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 century	det
22	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 century	amod
23	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Alphonsi	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Fabulæ	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Fabulæ	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Fabulæ	det
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 Fabulæ	punct
28	Fabulæ	Fabulæ	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 occurs	parataxis
29	Extravagantes	Extravagantes	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Fabulæ	flat
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 Fabulæ	punct
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 thirteenth	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 thirteenth	det
33	thirteenth	thirteenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 _	obl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 fourteenth	cc
35	fourteenth	fourteenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thirteenth	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 crocodile	punct
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 crocodile	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 animal	det
39	ingrate	ingrate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 animal	amod
40	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 crocodile	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 crocodile	cop
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 crocodile	det
43	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thirteenth	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 asks	punct
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 asks	nsubj
46	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 crocodile	acl:relcl
47	to	to	PART	_	49 carried	mark
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 carried	aux:pass
49	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 asks	xcomp
50	away	away	ADV	_	49 carried	advmod
51	from	from	ADP	_	53 river	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 river	det
53	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 carried	obl
54	about	about	SCONJ	_	56 dry	mark
55	to	to	PART	_	56 dry	mark
56	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 carried	advcl
57	up	up	ADP	_	56 dry	compound:prt
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 is	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 is	cc
60	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	61 is	expl
61	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 crocodile	parataxis
62	only	only	ADV	_	63 one	advmod
63	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	64 judge	nummod
64	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 is	nsubj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 occurs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	present	the first		two Egyptian versions		in Petrus Alphonsi in the twelfth century	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in version=Location
2	collect	participle		two Egyptian versions not said here		day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	the ingrate animal	a crocodile	here			tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	present	a crocodile					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	carry away not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	a crocodile not said here		a river		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from river=Initial_Location
6	dry up	to-infinitive	a crocodile not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	be	present	one judge		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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