Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 19
A striking confirmation of this, in connection with our immediate subject, is offered by Mr. Harris' sequel volume, _Nights with Uncle Remus_.
Who acts: sequel volume · What happens: strike, offer, confirm · To what, where: striking confirmation, this
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 (sequel volume), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 confirmation | det |
| 2 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 confirmation | amod |
| 3 | confirmation | confirmation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 confirmation | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 connection | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 connection | case |
| 8 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 confirmation | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 subject | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 subject | nmod:poss |
| 11 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 subject | amod |
| 12 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 connection | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 confirmation | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 offered | aux:pass |
| 15 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 volume | case |
| 17 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Harris | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Harris | Harris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 volume | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 Harris | case |
| 20 | sequel | sequel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 volume | compound |
| 21 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Nights | punct |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 Nights | punct |
| 24 | Nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 offered | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 Remus | case |
| 26 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Remus | compound |
| 27 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Nights | nmod |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 Nights | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | offer | present · passive | Harris Mr.'s sequel volume | a striking confirmation of this and connection with our immediate subject | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | confirm | this | nom confirmation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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