Indian Fairy Tales, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., sentence 28
One thing at least is certain: all these hundred variants come ultimately from one source.
Who acts: One thing, hundred variants · What happens: be, come · To what, where: least, one source
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 (One thing, hundred variants), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thing | nummod |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 certain | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 least | case |
| 4 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 certain | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 certain | cop |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 variants | det:predet |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 variants | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 variants | nummod |
| 11 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 certain | parataxis |
| 13 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 source | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 source | nummod |
| 16 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One thing | least | certain property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | present | all hundred variants | one source | ultimately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from source=Initial_Location |
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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