Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 10
We can trace it to Africa, where it occurs in Cape Colony (_South African Folk-Lore Journal_, vol. i.).
Who acts: We, story · What happens: trace, occur · To what, where: story, Africa, Cape Colony
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, story), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 trace | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 trace | aux |
| 3 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trace | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Africa | case |
| 6 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 trace | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 occurs | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 occurs | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 occurs | nsubj |
| 10 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trace | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Colony | case |
| 12 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Colony | compound |
| 13 | Colony | Colony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 occurs | obl |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 Journal | punct |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Journal | punct |
| 16 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Journal | compound |
| 17 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Journal | amod |
| 18 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lore | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Folk | punct |
| 20 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Journal | compound |
| 21 | Journal | Journal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Colony | appos |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Journal | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 vol. | punct |
| 24 | vol. | vol. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Journal | appos |
| 25 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 vol. | dep |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 Journal | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | can | We | story | Africa | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | occur | present | story | Cape Colony | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in colony=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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