Indian Fairy Tales, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender., sentence 12
The preceding number showed one of his fables existing among the Jatakas, probably before the Christian era.
Who acts: preceding number, fables · What happens: precede, show, exist · To what, where: one, Jatakas
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 (preceding number, fables), 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 | 3 number | det |
| 2 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 showed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fables | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fables | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 fables | acl |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 Jatakas | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Jatakas | det |
| 12 | Jatakas | jataka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 existing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 era | punct |
| 14 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 18 era | advmod |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 era | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 era | det |
| 17 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 era | amod |
| 18 | era | era | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | show | past | the preceding number | one of number's fables | before the Christian era | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | |||
| 3 | exist | gerund | number's fables not said here | the Jatakas | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among jataka=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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