Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 111

Even with Fables, or beast-tales, this could be done, for the Hindoos were Darwinists long before Darwin, and regarded beasts as cousins of men and stages of development in the progress of the soul through the ages.

Who acts: Hindoos, Fables, soul · What happens: do, be, regard, progress · To what, where: this, beasts, progress

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hindoos, Fables, soul), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	3 Fables	advmod
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 Fables	case
3	Fables	Fable	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tales	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 tales	cc
6	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 beast	punct
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Fables	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 done	punct
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 done	nsubj:pass
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 done	aux:pass
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tales	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Darwinists	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 Darwinists	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Hindoos	det
17	Hindoos	Hindoo	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 Darwinists	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Darwinists	cop
19	Darwinists	darwinist	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 done	obl
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 Darwinists	advmod
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 Darwin	case
22	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Darwinists	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 regarded	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 regarded	cc
25	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Fables	acl
26	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 regarded	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 cousins	case
28	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 regarded	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 men	case
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 cousins	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stages	cc
32	stages	stage	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 men	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 development	case
34	development	development	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stages	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 progress	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 progress	det
37	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 regarded	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 soul	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 soul	det
40	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 progress	nmod
41	through	through	ADP	_	43 ages	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ages	det
43	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 regarded	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Fables	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	could · passive		this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	is	past	the Hindoos			before Darwin	for Darwinists; long property	tree rules
3	regard	participle	Fables not said here	beasts	the progress of the soul	through the ages	as cousins of men and stages of development	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent beast=Theme as cousin=Value
4	progress		the soul					nom progress «act intransitive»: of=agent

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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