Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 9
The story is a favourite one with the negroes: it occurs in Col. Jones' _Negro Myths of the Georgia Coast_ (Uncle Remus is from S. Carolina), also among those of Brazil (Romero, _Contos do Brazil_), and in the West Indian Islands (Mr. Lang, "At the Sign of the Ship," _Longman's Magazine_, Feb. 1889).
Who acts: story, Uncle Remus, Contos · What happens: be, occur, do · To what, where: favourite one, Magazine, Col., S. Carolina, Brazil
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 (story, Uncle Remus, Contos), 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 | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 negroes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 negroes | det |
| 9 | negroes | negro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 occurs | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 occurs | nsubj |
| 12 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Col. | case |
| 14 | Col. | Col. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 occurs | obl |
| 15 | Jones | Jones | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Col. | flat |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 Jones | case |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 Myths | punct |
| 18 | Negro | Negro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Myths | compound |
| 19 | Myths | Myths | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 Col. | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Coast | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Coast | det |
| 22 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Coast | compound |
| 23 | Coast | Coast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Myths | nmod |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 occurs | punct |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 Carolina | punct |
| 26 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Remus | compound |
| 27 | Remus | remus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Carolina | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 Carolina | cop |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Carolina | case |
| 30 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Carolina | compound |
| 31 | Carolina | Carolina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 occurs | parataxis |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 Carolina | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 those | punct |
| 34 | also | also | ADV | _ | 36 those | advmod |
| 35 | among | among | ADP | _ | 36 those | case |
| 36 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 occurs | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Brazil | case |
| 38 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 those | nmod |
| 39 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 Romero | punct |
| 40 | Romero | Romero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Brazil | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 do | punct |
| 42 | _ | _ | SCONJ | _ | 44 do | mark |
| 43 | Contos | Conto | PROPN | Number=Plur | 44 do | nsubj |
| 44 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 occurs | parataxis |
| 45 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 do | obj |
| 46 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 45 Brazil | punct |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 do | punct |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 Islands | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 Islands | cc |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 Islands | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Islands | det |
| 52 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Islands | compound |
| 53 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 Islands | amod |
| 54 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 occurs | obl |
| 55 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 57 Lang | punct |
| 56 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Lang | nmod:desc |
| 57 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Islands | nmod |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 Sign | punct |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 62 Sign | punct |
| 60 | At | at | ADP | _ | 62 Sign | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 Sign | det |
| 62 | Sign | Sign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 occurs | obl |
| 63 | of | of | ADP | _ | 65 Ship | case |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 Ship | det |
| 65 | Ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 Sign | nmod |
| 66 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 71 Magazine | punct |
| 67 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 71 Magazine | punct |
| 68 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 71 Magazine | punct |
| 69 | Longman | Longman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 71 Magazine | nmod:poss |
| 70 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 69 Longman | case |
| 71 | Magazine | Magazine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 occurs | obl |
| 72 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 71 Magazine | punct |
| 73 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 75 1889 | punct |
| 74 | Feb. | February | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 75 1889 | nmod:unmarked |
| 75 | 1889 | 1889 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 71 Magazine | appos |
| 76 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 75 1889 | punct |
| 77 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the story | a favourite one | with the negroes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | occur | present | story | Longman's Magazine | Col. | in the West Indian Islands Lang Mr.; at the Sign of the Ship | tree rules | ||
| 3 | is | present | Uncle Remus | S. Carolina | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | present | Contos | Brazil | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brazil=Eventuality |
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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