Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 22
Among the Karens of Burmah, where Buddhist influence is still active, the Hare holds exactly the same place in their folk-lore as Brer Rabbit among the negroes.
Who acts: Karens, Hare · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: same place, folk lore
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 (Karens, Hare), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 Karens | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Karens | det |
| 3 | Karens | Karen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 active | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Burmah | case |
| 5 | Burmah | Burmah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Karens | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 active | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 active | advmod |
| 8 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 influence | amod |
| 9 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 active | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 active | cop |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 active | advmod |
| 12 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 holds | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hare | det |
| 15 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 holds | nsubj |
| 16 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 active | parataxis |
| 17 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 20 place | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 place | amod |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 holds | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 lore | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lore | nmod:poss |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lore | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 folk | punct |
| 25 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 holds | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 Rabbit | case |
| 27 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Rabbit | compound |
| 28 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 lore | nmod |
| 29 | among | among | ADP | _ | 31 negroes | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 negroes | det |
| 31 | negroes | negro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 holds | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 active | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Karens of Burmah | still | active property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | present | the Hare | the same place | Karens's folk lore as Brer Rabbit | among the negroes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme in lore=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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