Indian Fairy Tales, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise., sentence 7

See Benfey, _Einleitung_, §84; also my _Bidpai_, E, 4 _a_; and North's text, pp.

Who acts: you, Bidpai · What happens: see, _ · To what, where: Benfey

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 (you, Bidpai), 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	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 See	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Einleitung	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 Einleitung	punct
5	Einleitung	Einleitung	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Benfey	conj
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Benfey	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 84	punct
8	§	§	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 84	amod
9	84	84	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Benfey	list
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 _	punct
11	also	also	ADV	_	22 _	advmod
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 _	nmod:poss
13	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 _	punct
14	Bidpai	Bidpai	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 _	nsubj
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 Bidpai	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 E	punct
17	E	E	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Bidpai	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 4	punct
19	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 E	appos
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 _	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 _	det
22	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 See	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 text	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 text	cc
25	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 text	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 North	case
27	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 See	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pp	punct
29	pp	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 text	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	Benfey and Einleitung				North's text and pp obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer benfey=Stimulus
2	_		Bidpai						tree rules

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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