Indian Fairy Tales, XIX. Raja Rasalu., sentence 6
The object of the game is to see which of the players can first move all his men into the black centre square of the cross (Temple, _l. c._, p. 344, and _Legends of Panjab_, i. 243-5).
Who acts: object · What happens: be, move · To what, where: men, black centre square · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (object), 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 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 game | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 object | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 move | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 players | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 players | det |
| 12 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 move | obl |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 move | aux |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 move | advmod |
| 15 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | ccomp |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 men | det:predet |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 men | nmod:poss |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 move | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 square | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 square | det |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 square | amod |
| 22 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 square | compound |
| 23 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 move | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 cross | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cross | det |
| 26 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 square | nmod |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 Temple | punct |
| 28 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 cross | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 c. | punct |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 c. | punct |
| 31 | l. | l. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 c. | compound |
| 32 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 Temple | appos |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 c. | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 p. | punct |
| 35 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Temple | conj |
| 36 | 344 | 344 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 p. | flat |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Legends | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Legends | cc |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 Legends | punct |
| 40 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Panjab | case |
| 42 | Panjab | Panjab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Legends | nmod |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 Legends | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 243-5 | punct |
| 45 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 46 243-5 | nsubj |
| 46 | 243-5 | 243-5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 Legends | appos |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 243-5 | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the object of the game | Legends of Panjab obl; see property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | can | Chaupur's men | the black centre square of the cross | of the players; first property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V NP.destination PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent which=Destination man=Theme of player=Initial_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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