Indian Fairy Tales, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., sentence 26
But there can be little doubt of what M. Cosquin _does_ point out--viz., that the Sicilian story is derived from the Indian one.
Who acts: little doubt, M. · What happens: be, do, point out, derive · To what, where: viz, Sicilian story
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 (little doubt, M.), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 be | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 be | expl |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 doubt | amod |
| 6 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 be | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 doubt | nmod |
| 9 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 does | nsubj |
| 10 | Cosquin | Cosquin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 M. | flat |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 M. | punct |
| 12 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 point | punct |
| 14 | point | point | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 does | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 point | advmod |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 viz | punct |
| 17 | viz | viz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 point | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 does | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 derived | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 derived | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 story | det |
| 22 | Sicilian | Sicilian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 story | amod |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 derived | aux:pass |
| 25 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 does | parataxis |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 one | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 one | det |
| 28 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 one | amod |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 derived | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | can | little doubt | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | M. | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | point out | infinitive | M. not said here | viz | out property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | derive | present · passive | the Sicilian story | from the Indian one | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from one=Material |
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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