Indian Fairy Tales, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., sentence 16
The idea of a son of seven mothers could only arise in a polygamous country.
Who acts: idea · What happens: arise · To what, where: polygamous country
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea), 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 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arise | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 son | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 idea | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mothers | case |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 mothers | nummod |
| 8 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 son | nmod |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 arise | aux |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 arise | advmod |
| 11 | arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 14 | polygamous | polygamous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 country | amod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arise | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 arise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | could | the idea of a son of seven mothers | a polygamous country | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=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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