Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 6
_--A Gaelic parallel was given by Campbell in _Trans.
Who acts: Campbell · What happens: give · To what, where: Gaelic parallel
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Campbell), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
| 3 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parallel | det |
| 4 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 parallel | amod |
| 5 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux:pass |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Campbell | case |
| 9 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Trans | case |
| 11 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Trans | compound |
| 12 | Trans | Tran | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Campbell | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | Campbell in _ Trans | a Gaelic parallel | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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