Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 21
No wonder Brer Rabbit is so 'cute: he is nothing less than an incarnation of Buddha.
Who acts: wonder, worship · What happens: be · To what, where: nothing
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 (wonder, worship), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 wonder | det |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cute | nsubj |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wonder | appos |
| 4 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Brer | flat |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cute | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 cute | advmod |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cute | punct |
| 8 | cute | cute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nothing | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 nothing | cop |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 cute | parataxis |
| 13 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 nothing | amod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 incarnation | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 incarnation | det |
| 16 | incarnation | incarnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 less | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Buddha | case |
| 18 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 incarnation | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | no wonder | cute property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | worship | nothing | 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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