Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 19

The spread in the Buddhistic world, and thence to the South Seas and Madagascar, would be secondary from India.

Who acts: spread · What happens: be · To what, where: India

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spread), 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 spread	det
2	spread	spread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 secondary	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
5	Buddhistic	Buddhistic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 world	compound
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Seas	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Seas	cc
9	thence	thence	ADV	_	13 Seas	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 Seas	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Seas	det
12	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Seas	compound
13	Seas	Sea	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 spread	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Madagascar	cc
15	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Seas	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spread	punct
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 secondary	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 secondary	cop
19	secondary	secondary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 India	case
21	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 secondary	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 secondary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the spread in the Buddhistic world			India		secondary 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: «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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