Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 28
The _Sasa Jataka_ identifies the Brer Rabbit Buddha with the hare in the moon.
Who acts: Sasa · What happens: identify · To what, where: Rabbit Buddha, moon
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 (Sasa), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sasa | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sasa | punct |
| 3 | Sasa | Sasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 identifies | nsubj |
| 4 | Jataka | Jataka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sasa | flat |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sasa | punct |
| 6 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Buddha | det |
| 8 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rabbit | compound |
| 9 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Buddha | compound |
| 10 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 identifies | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hare | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hare | det |
| 13 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 identifies | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 moon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moon | det |
| 16 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 identifies | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 identifies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | present | the Sasa | the Rabbit Buddha | the moon | with the hare | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent buddha=Theme |
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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