Indian Fairy Tales, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., sentence 24
Krohn grants the possibility of the Egyptian form having been invented in India and carried to Egypt, and he allows that the European forms have been influenced by the Indian.
Who acts: Krohn · What happens: grant, invent, carry, allow, influence · To what, where: possibility, Egyptian form, India, Egypt, European 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 (Krohn), 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 grants | nsubj |
| 2 | grants | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 possibility | det |
| 4 | possibility | possibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grants | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 form | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 7 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 form | amod |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possibility | nmod |
| 9 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 invented | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 invented | aux:pass |
| 11 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 form | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 India | case |
| 13 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 invented | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 invented | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Egypt | case |
| 17 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 allows | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 allows | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 allows | nsubj |
| 21 | allows | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grants | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 influenced | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forms | det |
| 24 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 forms | amod |
| 25 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 influenced | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 influenced | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 influenced | aux:pass |
| 28 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 allows | advcl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 Indian | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Indian | det |
| 31 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 influenced | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | present | Krohn | the possibility of the Egyptian form | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent possibility=Theme | ||||
| 2 | invent | gerund · perfect · passive | the Egyptian form not said here | India | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Egypt | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to egypt=Destination | |||||
| 4 | allow | present | Krohn | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 5 | influence | present · perfect · passive | the European forms | by the Indian | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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