Indian Fairy Tales, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender., sentence 11
_--Here we have collected in modern India what one cannot help thinking is the Indian original of a fable of Avian.
Who acts: we · What happens: collect, not help, think, be · To what, where: modern India, Indian original
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 6 collected | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 collected | punct |
| 3 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 collected | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 collected | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 collected | aux |
| 6 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 India | case |
| 8 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 India | amod |
| 9 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 collected | obl |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 help | nsubj |
| 11 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 help | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 help | advmod |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 collected | parataxis |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 original | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 original | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 original | det |
| 18 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 original | amod |
| 19 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 help | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fable | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fable | det |
| 22 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 original | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Avian | case |
| 24 | Avian | avian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fable | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present · perfect | we | modern India; here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not help | can | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the Indian original | of a fable of Avian | 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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