English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 40

The verses imbedded in the _Arabian Nights_ give them something of the character of a _cante-fable_, and the same may be said of the Indian and Persian story-books, though the verse is usually of a sententious and moral kind, as in the _gâthas_ of the Buddhist Jatakas.

Who acts: verses, verse · What happens: imbed, give, say, be · To what, where: verses, something, _, same · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (verses, verse), 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 verses	det
2	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 give	nsubj
3	imbedded	imbed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 verses	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 Nights	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Nights	det
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 Nights	punct
7	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Nights	amod
8	Nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 imbedded	obl
9	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 give	nsubj
10	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	iobj
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 give	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 character	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 character	det
15	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 something	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 fable	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fable	det
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 fable	punct
19	cante	cante	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fable	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 cante	punct
21	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 character	nmod
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 give	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 same	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 said	nsubj:pass
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 said	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	aux:pass
29	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 give	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	37 books	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 books	det
32	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 books	amod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Persian	cc
34	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Indian	conj
35	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 books	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 story	punct
37	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 said	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 kind	punct
39	though	though	SCONJ	_	49 kind	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 verse	det
41	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 kind	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 kind	cop
43	usually	usually	ADV	_	49 kind	advmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	49 kind	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 kind	det
46	sententious	sententious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 kind	amod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 moral	cc
48	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 sententious	conj
49	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 gâthas	punct
51	as	as	ADP	_	55 gâthas	case
52	in	in	ADP	_	55 gâthas	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 gâthas	det
54	_	_	PUNCT	_	55 gâthas	punct
55	gâthas	gâtha	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 said	ccomp
56	_	_	PUNCT	_	55 gâthas	punct
57	of	of	ADP	_	60 Jatakas	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Jatakas	det
59	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 Jatakas	amod
60	Jatakas	jataka	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 _	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	imbed	participle		the verses not said here		night		tree rules
2	give	present	the verses	something	_			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient something=Theme
3	say speech: assert	may · passive		the same			of the Indian story books	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	is	present	the verse				of a sententious kind; usually 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: «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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