Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 13
There can be little doubt that the Jataka of Prince Five Weapons came to Africa, possibly by Buddhist missionaries, spread among the negroes, and then took ship in the holds of slavers for the New World, where it is to be found in fuller form than any yet discovered in the home of its birth.
Who acts: little doubt, Jataka, fuller form · What happens: be, come, spread, take, find, discover · To what, where: little doubt, Africa, Buddhist missionaries, negroes, ship, slavers
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 (little doubt, Jataka, fuller form), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 doubt | amod |
| 5 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Jataka | det |
| 8 | Jataka | Jataka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Prince | case |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Jataka | nmod |
| 11 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 Weapons | nummod |
| 12 | Weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 doubt | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Africa | case |
| 15 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 missionaries | punct |
| 17 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 20 missionaries | advmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 missionaries | case |
| 19 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 missionaries | amod |
| 20 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spread | punct |
| 22 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 missionaries | acl |
| 23 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 negroes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 negroes | det |
| 25 | negroes | negro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spread | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 took | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 took | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 took | advmod |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 30 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 took | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 slavers | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 slavers | det |
| 33 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 slavers | cop |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 slavers | case |
| 35 | slavers | slaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 took | obl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 World | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 World | det |
| 38 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 World | amod |
| 39 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 slavers | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 found | punct |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 found | advmod |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 found | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 found | aux:pass |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 found | mark |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 found | aux:pass |
| 46 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 slavers | acl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 form | case |
| 48 | fuller | full | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 49 form | amod |
| 49 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 found | obl |
| 50 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 53 discovered | mark |
| 51 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 53 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 53 discovered | advmod |
| 53 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 form | acl |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 home | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 home | det |
| 56 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 discovered | obl |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 birth | case |
| 58 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 birth | nmod:poss |
| 59 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 home | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | can | little doubt | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Jataka of Prince | little doubt not said here | Africa | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doubt=Theme | |||
| 3 | spread | participle | Buddhist missionaries not said here | the negroes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among negro=Location | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the Jataka of Prince not said here | ship | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | present | the slavers | for the New World | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | find | present · passive | the Jataka of Prince not said here | Jataka | fuller form | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 7 | discover | participle · passive | fuller form not said here | any | the home of Jataka's birth | yet | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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