Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 112

Thus, by identifying the Buddha with the heroes of all folk-tales and the chief characters in the beast-drolls, the Buddhists were enabled to incorporate the whole of the story-store of Hindostan in their sacred books, and enlist on their side the tale-telling instincts of men.

Who acts: Buddhists · What happens: identify, droll, enable, incorporate, enlist, tell · To what, where: Buddha, beast, Buddhists, whole, sacred books, telling instincts · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Buddhists), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	23 drolls	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 identifying	mark
4	identifying	identify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 drolls	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Buddha	det
6	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 identifying	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 heroes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heroes	det
9	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 identifying	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 tales	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 tales	det
12	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tales	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 folk	punct
14	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heroes	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 characters	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 characters	det
17	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 characters	compound
18	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tales	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 beast	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beast	det
21	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identifying	obl
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 identifying	punct
23	drolls	droll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 enabled	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Buddhists	det
26	Buddhists	Buddhist	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 enabled	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 enabled	aux:pass
28	enabled	enable	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 drolls	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 incorporate	mark
30	incorporate	incorporate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 enabled	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 whole	det
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 incorporate	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 store	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 store	det
35	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 store	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 story	punct
37	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 whole	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Hindostan	case
39	Hindostan	Hindostan	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 store	nmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 books	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 books	nmod:poss
42	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 books	amod
43	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 incorporate	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 enlist	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 enlist	cc
46	enlist	enlist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 drolls	conj
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 side	case
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 side	nmod:poss
49	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 enlist	obl
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 instincts	det
51	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 telling	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 tale	punct
53	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	54 instincts	amod
54	instincts	instinct	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 enlist	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 men	case
56	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 instincts	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 drolls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	gerund		the Buddha	the beast	with the heroes of all folk tales and the chief characters	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent buddha=Theme
2	droll	present				thus property	tree rules
3	enable	past · passive		the Buddhists			tree rules
4	incorporate	to-infinitive	the Buddhists not said here	the whole	beasts's sacred books		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient
5	enlist	present		the telling instincts of men	beasts's side		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instinct=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	gerund					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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