Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 21

The conception of an animal sacrificing itself for the sake of others is peculiarly Buddhistic; the "hare in the moon" is an apotheosis of such a piece of self-sacrifice on the part of Buddha (_Sasa Jataka_).

Who acts: animal, conception, hare · What happens: sacrifice, be, conceive · To what, where: conception, apotheosis, part, animal

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, conception, hare), 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 conception	det
2	conception	conception	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 peculiarly	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 animal	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conception	nmod
6	sacrificing	sacrifice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 animal	acl
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 sacrificing	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 sake	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sake	det
10	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sacrificing	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 others	case
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sake	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 peculiarly	cop
14	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	Buddhistic	Buddhistic	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 peculiarly	flat
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 apotheosis	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hare	det
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 hare	punct
19	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 apotheosis	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 moon	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 moon	det
22	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hare	nmod
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 moon	punct
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 apotheosis	cop
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 apotheosis	det
26	apotheosis	apotheosis	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 peculiarly	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 piece	case
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 piece	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 piece	det
30	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 apotheosis	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 sacrifice	case
32	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sacrifice	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 self	punct
34	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 piece	nmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 part	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 part	det
37	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 apotheosis	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Buddha	case
39	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 part	nmod
40	(	(	PUNCT	_	42 Sasa	punct
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 Sasa	punct
42	Sasa	Sasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Buddha	appos
43	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Sasa	flat
44	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 Sasa	punct
45	)	)	PUNCT	_	42 Sasa	punct
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 peculiarly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sacrifice	gerund	a animal not said here	conception		for the sake of others	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
2	is	present	the conception of a animal			peculiarly property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the hare in the moon	a apotheosis	the part of Buddha	of such piece of self sacrifice	tree rules
4	conceive			a animal			nom conception «cognition 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: «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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