Indian Fairy Tales, XXIX. the Pigeon and the Crow., sentence 4

_--We began with an animal Jataka, and may appropriately finish with one which shows how effectively the writers of the Jatakas could represent animal folk, and how terribly moral they invariably were in their tales.

Who acts: We, writers · What happens: begin, finish, show, represent, be · To what, where: one, animal folk, tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIX. the Pigeon and the Crow.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, writers), 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	_	4 began	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
3	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 animal	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 animal	det
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl
8	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 animal	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 finish	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 finish	cc
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 finish	aux
12	appropriately	appropriately	ADV	_	13 finish	advmod
13	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 finish	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 shows	nsubj
17	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 one	acl:relcl
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 effectively	advmod
19	effectively	effectively	ADV	_	26 represent	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 writers	det
21	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 represent	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Jatakas	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Jatakas	det
24	Jatakas	jataka	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 writers	nmod
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 represent	aux
26	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 shows	ccomp
27	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 folk	compound
28	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 represent	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 moral	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 moral	cc
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 terribly	advmod
32	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	33 moral	advmod
33	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 began	parataxis
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 tales	nsubj
35	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	39 tales	advmod
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 tales	cop
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 tales	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 tales	nmod:poss
39	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 moral	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	We			with a animal	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with animal=Subeventuality
2	finish	may	We not said here	one		appropriately property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality one=Eventuality
3	show	present					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	represent	could	the writers of the Jatakas	animal folk		effectively property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot folk=Theme
5	is	past	writers = writer		writers's tales	invariably property	tree rules

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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