Indian Fairy Tales, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender., sentence 13
This makes it likely that we shall find an earlier Indian original of the fable of the Avaricious and Envious, perhaps among the Jatakas still untranslated.
Who acts: This, we · What happens: make, find, untranslat · To what, where: fable, earlier Indian original, 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 likely | xcomp |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 original | det |
| 10 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 original | amod |
| 11 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 original | amod |
| 12 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fable | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fable | det |
| 15 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 original | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Avaricious | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Avaricious | det |
| 18 | Avaricious | Avaricious | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fable | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Envious | cc |
| 20 | Envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Avaricious | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Jatakas | punct |
| 22 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 25 Jatakas | advmod |
| 23 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 Jatakas | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Jatakas | det |
| 25 | Jatakas | jataka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Avaricious | appos |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 untranslated | advmod |
| 27 | untranslated | untranslat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 Jatakas | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | This | fable | likely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 2 | find | shall | we | a earlier Indian original of the fable of the Avaricious | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent original=Topic | ||||
| 3 | untranslat | participle | the Jatakas not said here | still | 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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