Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 4
Estlin Carpenter's sermon, _Three Ways of Salvation_, 1884, p. 27, where my attention was first called to this Jataka.
Who acts: my · What happens: call, attend · To what, where: attention, Jataka · 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 (my), 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 | Estlin | Estlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Carpenter | Carpenter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sermon | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Carpenter | case |
| 4 | sermon | sermon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Estlin | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Estlin | punct |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ways | punct |
| 7 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Ways | nummod |
| 8 | Ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Estlin | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Salvation | case |
| 10 | Salvation | Salvation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ways | nmod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ways | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 1884 | punct |
| 13 | 1884 | 1884 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Estlin | list |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 27 | punct |
| 15 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 27 | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Estlin | list |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 called | advmod |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 attention | nmod:poss |
| 20 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 called | aux:pass |
| 22 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 called | advmod |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Estlin | acl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Jataka | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 Jataka | det |
| 26 | Jataka | Jataka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 called | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Estlin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | my attention | this Jataka | first property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to jataka=Recipient | |||
| 2 | attend | my | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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