Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 24

Curiously enough, the negro form of the five-fold attack--"fighting with _five_ fists," Mr. Barr would call it--is probably nearer to the original legend than that preserved in the Jataka, though 2000 years older.

Who acts: Barr · What happens: fight, call, be, preserve, form · To what, where: fists, attack, Jataka, fold attack · 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 (Barr), 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	Curiously	curiously	ADV	_	6 form	advmod
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Curiously	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Curiously	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 form	det
5	negro	negro	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 form	amod
6	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nearer	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 attack	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 attack	det
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 fold	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 five	punct
11	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attack	compound
12	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 form	nmod
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 fighting	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 fighting	punct
15	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 form	parataxis
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 five	case
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 with	punct
18	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 fighting	obl
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 fists	punct
20	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fighting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fists	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 fists	punct
23	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Barr	nmod:desc
24	Barr	Barr	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 call	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 call	aux
26	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fighting	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 call	obj
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 form	punct
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 nearer	cop
30	probably	probably	ADV	_	31 nearer	advmod
31	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 legend	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 legend	det
34	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 legend	amod
35	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nearer	obl
36	than	than	ADP	_	37 that	case
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 nearer	obl
38	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 nearer	advcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 Jataka	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Jataka	det
41	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 preserved	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 older	punct
43	though	though	SCONJ	_	46 older	mark
44	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	45 years	nummod
45	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 older	obl:unmarked
46	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 nearer	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 nearer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight in a quote	gerund		fists			with five	tree rules
2	call	would	Barr Mr.	attack				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	is	present					to the original legend; than that; the negro form of the fold attack obl; near, probably property	tree rules
4	preserve	participle			the Jataka			vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	be					year		tree rules
6	form			the fold attack				nom form «communication 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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