Indian Fairy Tales, XIX. Raja Rasalu., sentence 4

A further version in Temple, _Legends of Panjab_, vol. i. _Chaupur_, I should explain, is a game played by two players with eight men, each on a board in the shape of a cross, four men to each cross covered with squares.

Who acts: I, further version · What happens: explain, be, play, cover · To what, where: further version, game, shape, cross

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 (I, further version), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 version	det
2	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 version	amod
3	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 game	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Temple	case
5	Temple	Temple	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 version	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Legends	punct
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 Legends	punct
8	Legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 version	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Panjab	case
10	Panjab	Panjab	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Legends	nmod
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 Panjab	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 vol.	punct
13	vol.	vol.	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Panjab	appos
14	i.	i.	X	Foreign=Yes	13 vol.	dep
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 Chaupur	punct
16	Chaupur	Chaupur	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Panjab	conj
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 Legends	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 version	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 explain	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 explain	aux
21	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 version	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 version	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 game	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 game	det
25	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 game	acl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 players	case
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 players	nummod
29	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 played	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 men	case
31	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 men	nummod
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 played	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 each	punct
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 men	appos
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 board	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 board	det
37	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 each	nmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 shape	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 shape	det
40	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 played	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 cross	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 cross	det
43	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shape	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 men	punct
45	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 men	nummod
46	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 cross	appos
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 cross	case
48	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	49 cross	det
49	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 men	nmod
50	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 cross	acl
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 squares	case
52	squares	square	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 covered	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 game	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	should	I	a further version in Temple not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Topic
2	is a	present	a further version in Temple	a game			tree rules
3	play	participle		a game not said here	the shape of a cross	by two players; with eight men	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent
4	cover	participle		each cross not said here		with squares	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with square=Theme

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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