Indian Fairy Tales, XIX. Raja Rasalu., sentence 5
The moves of the men are decided by the throws of a long form of dice.
Who acts: throws, men · What happens: decide, move, throw, form · To what, where: moves, long form, dice
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 (throws, men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moves | det |
| 2 | moves | move | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 moves | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 decided | aux:pass |
| 7 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 throws | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 throws | det |
| 10 | throws | throw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 decided | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 form | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 form | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 form | amod |
| 14 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throws | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dice | case |
| 16 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 form | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present · passive | the throws of a long form of dice | the moves of the men | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | move | the men | nom move «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | throw | a long form of dice | nom throw «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | form | dice | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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