Indian Fairy Tales, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise., sentence 12

A replica of it here may serve to show that it could be used equally well to illustrate the Pali original as its English great-great-great-great-great-great grand-child.

Who acts: replica · What happens: serve, show, use, illustrate · To what, where: replica · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (replica), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 replica	det
2	replica	replica	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serve	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 replica	nmod
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 replica	advmod
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 serve	aux
7	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 show	mark
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 serve	xcomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 used	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	nsubj:pass
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 used	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 used	aux:pass
14	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 show	ccomp
15	equally	equally	ADV	_	16 well	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 used	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 illustrate	mark
18	illustrate	illustrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 used	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 original	det
20	Pali	Pali	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 original	compound
21	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 illustrate	ccomp
22	as	as	ADP	_	38 child	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 child	nmod:poss
24	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 child	amod
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 child	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 great	punct
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 child	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 great	punct
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 child	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 great	punct
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 child	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 great	punct
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 child	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 great	punct
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 child	amod
36	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 child	amod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 grand	punct
38	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 original	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 serve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	serve	may	a replica of illustration			tree rules
2	show	to-infinitive	a replica of illustration not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	use	could · passive		replica	well property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	illustrate	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: 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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