English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 39

Many of the heroic verses of the Arabs contained in the _Hamâsa_ would be unintelligible without accompanying narrative, which is nowadays preserved in the commentary.

Who acts: Many, Hamâsa · What happens: contain, be, accompany, preserve, verse · To what, where: narrative, commentary, Arabs

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, Hamâsa), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 contained	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 verses	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 verses	det
4	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 verses	amod
5	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Many	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Arabs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Arabs	det
8	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 verses	nmod
9	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	17 unintelligible	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 unintelligible	det
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	17 unintelligible	punct
13	Hamâsa	Hamâsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 unintelligible	nsubj
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 Hamâsa	punct
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 unintelligible	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 unintelligible	cop
17	unintelligible	unintelligible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 contained	xcomp
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 accompanying	mark
19	accompanying	accompany	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 unintelligible	advcl
20	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 accompanying	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 preserved	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 preserved	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 preserved	aux:pass
24	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	25 preserved	advmod
25	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 narrative	acl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 commentary	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 commentary	det
28	commentary	commentary	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 preserved	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 contained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	contain	past	Many of the heroic verses of the Arabs				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	is	would	Hamâsa			unintelligible property	tree rules
3	accompany	gerund	Hamâsa not said here	narrative			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrative=Theme
4	preserve	present · passive		narrative	the commentary	nowadays property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
5	verse			the Arabs			nom verse «communication transitive»: of=patient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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