Indian Fairy Tales, XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin., sentence 15
_--Avian wrote towards the end of the third century, and put into Latin mainly those portions of Babrius which are unparalleled by Phædrus.
Who acts: Avian, portions · What happens: write, put, be · To what, where: portions, Latin
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Avian, portions), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrote | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 Avian | punct |
| 3 | Avian | avian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wrote | nsubj |
| 4 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrote | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 century | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 century | det |
| 10 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 century | amod |
| 11 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wrote | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 Latin | case |
| 16 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 17 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 portions | det |
| 19 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 put | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Babrius | case |
| 21 | Babrius | Babrius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 portions | nmod |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 unparalleled | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 unparalleled | cop |
| 24 | unparalleled | unparalleled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 portions | acl:relcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Phædrus | case |
| 26 | Phædrus | Phædrus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 unparalleled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Avian | towards the end of the third century | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | put | participle | Avian not said here | that portions of Babrius | Latin | mainly property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent portion=Goal | ||
| 3 | is | present | that portions of Babrius | by Phædrus; unparalleled property | 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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