Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 29
It is well known that Easterns explain an eclipse of the moon as due to its being swallowed up by a Dragon or Demon.
Who acts: Easterns, Dragon · What happens: know, explain, swallow up, eclipse · To what, where: moon, eclipse
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 (Easterns, Dragon), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 known | advmod |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 explain | mark |
| 6 | Easterns | eastern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 explain | nsubj |
| 7 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | advcl |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 eclipse | det |
| 9 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 explain | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 moon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moon | det |
| 12 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eclipse | nmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 swallowed | mark |
| 14 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 swallowed | mark |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 due | fixed |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 swallowed | nmod:poss |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 18 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 known | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Dragon | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Dragon | det |
| 22 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 swallowed | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 Demon | cc |
| 24 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Dragon | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | moon | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | present | Easterns | a eclipse of the moon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eclipse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | swallow up | gerund · passive | a Dragon or Demon | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eclipse | the moon | nom eclipse «event 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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