Indian Fairy Tales, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., sentence 22
The further question arises, whether this form, though found in Egypt now, is indigenous there, and if so, how it got to the East.
Who acts: further question, question · What happens: arise, find, be, get · To what, where: form, Egypt
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 (further question, question), 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 | 3 question | det |
| 2 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 question | amod |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arises | nsubj |
| 4 | arises | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 form | punct |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 form | mark |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 form | det |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arises | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 found | mark |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 form | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Egypt | case |
| 13 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 found | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 indigenous | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 indigenous | cop |
| 17 | indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arises | parataxis |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 indigenous | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 got | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | mark |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 got | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 got | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 got | nsubj |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arises | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 East | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 East | det |
| 29 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 got | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | present | the further question | this form | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | participle | this form not said here | Egypt | now | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is | present | there | indigenous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | past | question | to the East result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to east=Result |
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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