Indian Fairy Tales, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., sentence 27
The evidence we have of other folk-tales of the beast-epic emanating from India improves the chances of this also coming from that source.
Who acts: we, emanating, this · What happens: have, emanate, improve, come, evidence · To what, where: evidence, India, chances, source, other folk tales
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 (we, emanating, this), 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 evidence | det |
| 2 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 evidence | acl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tales | case |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tales | amod |
| 7 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tales | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 folk | punct |
| 9 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evidence | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 epic | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 epic | det |
| 12 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 epic | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 epic | punct |
| 14 | epic | epic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tales | acl:relcl |
| 15 | emanating | emanate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 improves | csubj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 India | case |
| 17 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 emanating | obl |
| 18 | improves | improve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 epic | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chances | det |
| 20 | chances | chance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 improves | obj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 coming | mark |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 coming | nsubj |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 coming | advmod |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 chances | acl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 source | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 source | det |
| 27 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 coming | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 evidence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | we | the evidence of other folk tales not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Patient | ||||
| 2 | emanate | gerund | India | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from india=Source | |||||
| 3 | improve | present | emanating | the chances | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | this | the chances not said here | that source | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chance=Theme | |||
| 5 | evidence | other folk tales | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=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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