Indian Fairy Tales, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., sentence 8
38-60; to which may be added three Indian variants, omitted by him, but mentioned by Capt.
What happens: add, omit, mention · To what, where: three Indian variants
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: 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 | 38-60 | 38-60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 added | obl |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 added | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 added | aux:pass |
| 7 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 38-60 | parataxis |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 variants | nummod |
| 9 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 variants | amod |
| 10 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 added | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 omitted | punct |
| 12 | omitted | omit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 variants | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 omitted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mentioned | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 mentioned | cc |
| 17 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 added | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Capt | case |
| 19 | Capt | Capt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 mentioned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 38-60 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | may · passive | three Indian variants | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: variant=Patient to which=Co-Patient | |||||
| 2 | omit | participle | three Indian variants not said here | by Prof | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | participle | by Capt | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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