Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 35
I am, however, not so much concerned with the original explanation of the Jataka as to trace its travels across the continents of Asia, Africa, and America.
Who acts: Jataka · What happens: trace, travel, explain · To what, where: America, continents
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 am | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 concerned | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 concerned | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 much | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 concerned | advmod |
| 9 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 am | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 explanation | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 explanation | det |
| 12 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 explanation | amod |
| 13 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concerned | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Jataka | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Jataka | det |
| 16 | Jataka | Jataka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 explanation | nmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 trace | mark |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 trace | mark |
| 19 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 explanation | acl |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 travels | nmod:poss |
| 21 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 trace | ccomp |
| 22 | across | across | ADP | _ | 24 continents | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 continents | det |
| 24 | continents | continent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 travels | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Asia | case |
| 26 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 continents | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Africa | punct |
| 28 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Asia | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 America | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 America | cc |
| 31 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 trace | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 am | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | to-infinitive | America | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | travel | present | the continents of Asia and Africa | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across continent=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | explain | the Jataka | nom explanation «communication 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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