Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 20

Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the time of the Crusaders.

Who acts: abundant evidence, literary, considerable number · What happens: be, mean, droll, evidence · To what, where: folk tales, India, early transmission · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (abundant evidence, literary, considerable number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 is	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 means	ccomp
4	abundant	abundant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evidence	amod
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 transmission	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 transmission	det
8	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 transmission	amod
9	transmission	transmission	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 evidence	nmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 literary	case
11	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 means	nsubj
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 number	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 number	det
15	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 number	amod
16	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 means	obl
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 drolls	mark
18	drolls	droll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 number	acl:relcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tales	cc
20	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tales	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 folk	punct
22	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 drolls	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 India	case
24	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 tales	nmod
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tales	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Crusaders	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Crusaders	det
30	Crusaders	Crusader	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 time	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	abundant evidence of the early transmission		there		certainly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mean	present	literary				of a considerable number	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	droll	present	a considerable number not said here	folk tales	India	about the time of the Crusaders		tree rules
4	evidence			the early transmission				nom evidence «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: «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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