Indian Fairy Tales, XVIII. Pride Goeth Before a Fall., sentence 3
I have changed the Indian mercantile numerals into those of English "back-slang," which make a very good parallel.
Who acts: I · What happens: change, make · To what, where: Indian mercantile numerals, slang, good parallel
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. Pride Goeth Before a Fall.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | aux |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 numerals | det |
| 5 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 numerals | amod |
| 6 | mercantile | mercantile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 numerals | compound |
| 7 | numerals | numeral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 changed | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 slang | case |
| 9 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 slang | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 English | case |
| 11 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 those | nmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 slang | punct |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 slang | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 back | punct |
| 15 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 make | nsubj |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 parallel | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 good | advmod |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 parallel | amod |
| 23 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present · perfect | I | the Indian mercantile numerals | into slang result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent numeral=Patient into slang=Result | |||
| 2 | make | present | a good parallel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset parallel=Product |
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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