Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 23
There are even indications of an earlier literary contact between Europe and India, in the case of one branch of the folk-tale, the Fable or Beast Droll.
Who acts: indications · What happens: be, indicate · To what, where: earlier literary contact
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 (indications), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 indications | advmod |
| 4 | indications | indication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 contact | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 contact | det |
| 7 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 contact | amod |
| 8 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 contact | amod |
| 9 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 indications | nmod |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 Europe | case |
| 11 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 contact | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 India | cc |
| 13 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Europe | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 case | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 case | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 case | det |
| 17 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contact | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 branch | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 branch | nummod |
| 20 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 case | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tale | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tale | det |
| 23 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tale | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 folk | punct |
| 25 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 branch | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Fable | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Fable | det |
| 28 | Fable | Fable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 contact | conj |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 Beast | cc |
| 30 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Fable | conj |
| 31 | Droll | Droll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Fable | flat |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | indications of a earlier literary contact between Europe and India and the case of one branch of the folk tale and the Fable or Beast | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | indicate | a earlier literary contact between Europe and India and the case of one branch of the folk tale and the Fable or Beast | nom indication «communication 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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