Indian Fairy Tales, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., sentence 19
The third is that current among Western Europeans, which has spread to S. Africa and N. and S. America: also three judges.
Who acts: third · What happens: be, spread · To what, where: current, S. Africa
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 (third), 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 third | det |
| 2 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 current | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 current | cop |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 current | det |
| 5 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 Europeans | case |
| 7 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Europeans | amod |
| 8 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 current | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spread | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 spread | aux |
| 12 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 current | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Africa | case |
| 14 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Africa | compound |
| 15 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spread | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 N | cc |
| 17 | N | N | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Africa | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Africa | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 America | cc |
| 20 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 America | compound |
| 21 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Africa | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 judges | punct |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 three | advmod |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 judges | nummod |
| 25 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 current | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 current | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the third | that current and three judges | among Western Europeans | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spread | present · perfect · passive | that current and three judges | S. Africa and N and S. America | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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