Indian Fairy Tales, XVII. a Lesson For Kings., sentence 7
Why, they can moralise even the Tar Baby (see _infra_, Note on "Demon with the Matted Hair," No. xxv.).
Who acts: Jatakas · What happens: moralise, see, mat · To what, where: Tar Baby, infra · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. a Lesson For Kings.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jatakas), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 moralise | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 moralise | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 moralise | aux |
| 5 | moralise | moralise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 Baby | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Baby | det |
| 8 | Tar | Tar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Baby | compound |
| 9 | Baby | Baby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 moralise | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 moralise | parataxis |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 infra | punct |
| 13 | infra | infra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 infra | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Note | punct |
| 16 | Note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 Demon | case |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Demon | punct |
| 19 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Note | nmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Hair | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Hair | det |
| 22 | Matted | mat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 Hair | amod |
| 23 | Hair | Hair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Demon | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 xxv | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 xxv | punct |
| 26 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 27 xxv | compound |
| 27 | xxv | xxv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Hair | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moralise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moralise | can | Jatakas = jataka | the Tar Baby | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | infra | Note on Demon with the Matted Hair obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer infra=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mat in a quote | participle | 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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