Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 14

The majority of the tales in this volume have been known in the West in some form or other, and the problem arises how to account for their simultaneous existence in farthest West and East.

Who acts: problem, tales · What happens: know, arise, exist · To what, where: majority, West

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (problem, tales), 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 majority	det
2	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 known	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tales	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tales	det
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 majority	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 volume	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 volume	det
8	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tales	nmod
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 known	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 known	aux:pass
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 West	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 West	det
14	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 known	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 form	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 form	det
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 known	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 other	cc
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 form	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 arises	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 arises	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 problem	det
23	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arises	nsubj
24	arises	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 known	parataxis
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 to	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 account	case
27	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arises	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 existence	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 existence	nmod:poss
30	simultaneous	simultaneous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 existence	amod
31	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arises	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 farthest	case
33	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 West	nmod
34	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 existence	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 East	cc
36	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 West	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present · perfect · passive		the majority of the tales in this volume	the West	in some form	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	arise	present	the problem			to account; for tales's simultaneous existence West in farthest and East	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	exist		tales = tale				nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=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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