Indian Fairy Tales, XXII. the Boy With Moon on Forehead., sentence 6

This is an essentially Indian trait; almost all Hindus have some tribal or caste mark on their bodies or faces.

Who acts: This, Hindus, some · What happens: be, have, mark · To what, where: Indian trait, bodies

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. the Boy With Moon on Forehead.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Hindus, some), 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	6 trait	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trait	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trait	det
4	essentially	essentially	ADV	_	5 Indian	advmod
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trait	amod
6	trait	trait	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 all	advmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 Hindus	det
10	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trait	parataxis
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 mark	nsubj
13	tribal	tribal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mark	amod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 mark	cc
15	caste	caste	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mark	compound
16	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 bodies	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bodies	nmod:poss
19	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mark	nmod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 faces	cc
21	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bodies	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	This	a Indian trait		tree rules
2	have	present	all Hindus			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mark		some		Hindus's bodies or faces	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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