Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 20
Here there is a whole chapter (xxx.) on "Brer Rabbit and his famous Foot," and it is well known how the worship of Buddha's foot developed in later Buddhism.
Who acts: whole chapter, worship, foot · What happens: be, know, develop, worship · To what, where: Foot, later Buddhism · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (whole chapter, worship, foot), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chapter | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chapter | amod |
| 6 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 xxx | punct |
| 8 | xxx | xxx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chapter | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 Rabbit | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rabbit | punct |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Rabbit | compound |
| 14 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Foot | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Foot | nmod:poss |
| 17 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Foot | amod |
| 18 | Foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Rabbit | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Foot | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Foot | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 known | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 known | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 known | aux:pass |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 known | advmod |
| 25 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Here | conj |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 developed | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 worship | det |
| 28 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 developed | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 foot | case |
| 30 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 foot | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Buddha | case |
| 32 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 worship | nmod |
| 33 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 known | ccomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Buddhism | case |
| 35 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 Buddhism | amod |
| 36 | Buddhism | Buddhism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 developed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a whole chapter and xxx | on Brer Rabbit and Rabbit's famous Foot; here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | Foot | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | develop | participle | the worship of Buddha's foot | later Buddhism | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in buddhism=Location | ||||
| 4 | worship | Buddha's foot | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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