Indian Fairy Tales, XIX. Raja Rasalu., sentence 7

It is sometimes said to be the origin of chess.

What happens: say, be · To what, where: object, origin · 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: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 origin	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 origin	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 origin	det
8	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 chess	case
10	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 origin	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		object				sometimes property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is a	to-infinitive		the origin				of chess	tree rules

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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