Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 17

This method employed by the Indian story-tellers and from them adopted by Boccaccio and thence into all European literatures (Chaucer, Queen Margaret, &c.), is generally thought to be peculiar to the East, and to be ultimately derived from the Jatakas or Birth Stories of the Buddha who tells his adventures in former incarnations.

Who acts: Buddha, Thackeray · What happens: employ, adopt, think, be, derive, tell · To what, where: method, Indian story tellers, peculiar, Jatakas, adventures, former incarnations · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. Conal Yellowclaw.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buddha, Thackeray), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 method	det
2	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thought	nsubj:pass
3	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 method	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	9 tellers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tellers	det
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tellers	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tellers	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 story	punct
9	tellers	teller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 employed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 them	cc
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tellers	conj
13	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tellers	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 Boccaccio	case
15	Boccaccio	Boccaccio	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 adopted	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 literatures	cc
17	thence	thence	ADV	_	21 literatures	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 literatures	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 literatures	det
20	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 literatures	amod
21	literatures	literature	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Boccaccio	conj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 Chaucer	punct
23	Chaucer	chaucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 literatures	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Queen	punct
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Chaucer	appos
26	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Queen	flat
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 c.	punct
28	&	&	CCONJ	_	29 c.	cc
29	c.	c.	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 method	appos
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 c.	punct
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 method	punct
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 thought	aux:pass
33	generally	generally	ADV	_	34 thought	advmod
34	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
35	to	to	PART	_	37 peculiar	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 peculiar	cop
37	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thought	xcomp
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 East	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 East	det
40	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 peculiar	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 derived	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 derived	cc
43	to	to	PART	_	46 derived	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 derived	aux:pass
45	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	46 derived	advmod
46	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 thought	conj
47	from	from	ADP	_	49 Jatakas	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Jatakas	det
49	Jatakas	jataka	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 derived	obl
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 Stories	cc
51	Birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 Stories	compound
52	Stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 Jatakas	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 Buddha	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Buddha	det
55	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Stories	nmod
56	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 tells	nsubj
57	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 Buddha	acl:relcl
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 adventures	nmod:poss
59	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 tells	obj
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 incarnations	case
61	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 incarnations	amod
62	incarnations	incarnation	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 adventures	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	employ	participle		this method not said here		by the Indian story tellers	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	adopt	participle		the Indian story tellers not said here		by Boccaccio and all European literatures and Chaucer	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	present · passive		this method		generally property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is a	to-infinitive		peculiar		to the East	tree rules
5	derive	to-infinitive · passive			the Jatakas or Birth Stories of the Buddha	ultimately property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from jataka=Material
6	tell speech: assert	present	the Buddha	Thackeray's adventures	former incarnations		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient
7	adventure		Thackeray		former incarnations		nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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