Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 25

These Jatakas contain a large quantity of genuine early Indian folk-tales, and form the earliest collection of folk-tales in the world, a sort of Indian Grimm, collected more than two thousand years before the good German brothers went on their quest among the folk with such delightful results.

Who acts: Jatakas, good German brothers, tales · What happens: contain, form, collect, go, sort, quest · To what, where: large quantity, earliest collection, quest, Indian Grimm

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 (Jatakas, good German brothers, tales), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 Jatakas	det
2	Jatakas	jataka	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 contain	nsubj
3	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 quantity	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quantity	amod
6	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contain	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	13 tales	case
8	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tales	amod
9	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tales	amod
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tales	amod
11	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tales	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 folk	punct
13	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 quantity	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 form	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 form	cc
16	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 contain	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 collection	det
18	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 collection	amod
19	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 form	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 tales	case
21	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tales	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 folk	punct
23	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 collection	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tales	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sort	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 sort	det
29	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tales	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Grimm	case
31	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Grimm	amod
32	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 sort	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 collected	punct
34	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 form	parataxis
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	38 thousand	advmod
36	than	than	ADP	_	35 more	fixed
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 thousand	compound
38	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 years	nummod
39	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 collected	obl:unmarked
40	before	before	SCONJ	_	45 went	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 brothers	det
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 brothers	amod
43	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 brothers	amod
44	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 went	nsubj
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 collected	advcl
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 quest	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 quest	nmod:poss
48	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 went	obl
49	among	among	ADP	_	51 folk	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 folk	det
51	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 went	obl
52	with	with	ADP	_	55 results	case
53	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 results	amod
54	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 results	amod
55	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 folk	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 contain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	this Jatakas	a large quantity of genuine early Indian folk tales				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot quantity=Theme
2	form	present		the earliest collection of folk tales in the world a sort of Indian Grimm				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location collection=Theme
3	collect	past				year		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	go	past	the good German brothers		tales's quest		among the folk with such delightful results	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on quest=Location
5	sort			Indian Grimm				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	quest		tales = tale					nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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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