Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 3
There is a brief abstract of the Jataka in Prof.
Who acts: brief abstract, Jataka · What happens: be, abstract
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 (brief abstract, Jataka), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 abstract | det |
| 4 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 abstract | amod |
| 5 | abstract | abstract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Jataka | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Jataka | det |
| 8 | Jataka | Jataka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 abstract | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Prof | case |
| 10 | Prof | Prof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Jataka | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a brief abstract of the Jataka in Prof | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | abstract | the Jataka in Prof | nom abstract «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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