Indian Fairy Tales, XIX. Raja Rasalu., sentence 17
_--Raja Rasalu is possibly a historic personage, according to Capt.
Who acts: _ Raja Rasalu · What happens: be, accord · To what, where: historic personage
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 (_ Raja Rasalu), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rasalu | compound |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rasalu | compound |
| 4 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 personage | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 personage | cop |
| 6 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 9 personage | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 personage | det |
| 8 | historic | historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 personage | amod |
| 9 | personage | personage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Capt | punct |
| 11 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 Capt | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 according | fixed |
| 13 | Capt | Capt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 personage | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 personage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | _ Raja Rasalu | a historic personage | possibly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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