Indian Fairy Tales, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., sentence 26
K. Krohn was unaware though it turns his whole argument.
Who acts: K., fact, Prof · What happens: be, turn, argue · To what, where: whole argument
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 (K., fact, Prof), 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 | K. | K. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 unaware | nsubj |
| 2 | Krohn | Krohn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 K. | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unaware | cop |
| 4 | unaware | unaware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 turns | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turns | nsubj |
| 7 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unaware | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 argument | nmod:poss |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 argument | amod |
| 10 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turns | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unaware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | K. | unaware property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | fact | Prof's whole argument | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme argument=Result | ||||
| 3 | argue | Prof | nom argument «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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