Indian Fairy Tales, XIX. Raja Rasalu., sentence 14
Gambling for life occurs in Celtic and other folk-tales; _cf.
Who acts: Gambling · What happens: occur · To what, where: cf, Celtic
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Raja Rasalu.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gambling), 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 | Gambling | gambling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 occurs | nsubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 life | case |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gambling | nmod |
| 4 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Celtic | case |
| 6 | Celtic | Celtic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 occurs | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tales | cc |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tales | amod |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tales | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 folk | punct |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Celtic | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 cf | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 cf | punct |
| 14 | cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 occurs | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | Gambling for life | cf | Celtic and other folk tales | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in celtic=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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