Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 35

Whether brought there or born there, we have scarcely any criterion for judging; but as some of those still current among the folk in India can be traced back more than a millennium, the presumption is in favour of an Indian origin.

Who acts: we, criterion, presumption · What happens: bring, bear, have, judge, trace, be · To what, where: criterion, more, favour

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 (we, criterion, presumption), 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	2 brought	mark
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 brought	advmod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 born	cc
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 brought	conj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 born	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	conj
10	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	9 have	advmod
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 criterion	det
12	criterion	criterion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 judging	mark
14	judging	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 criterion	acl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 current	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 current	cc
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 some	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 current	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 those	case
20	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 current	nsubj
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 current	advmod
22	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brought	parataxis
23	among	among	ADP	_	25 folk	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 folk	det
25	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 traced	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 India	case
27	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 folk	nmod
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 traced	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 traced	aux:pass
30	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 current	advcl
31	back	back	ADV	_	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 traced	obj
33	than	than	ADP	_	35 millennium	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 millennium	det
35	millennium	millennium	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 more	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 favour	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 presumption	det
38	presumption	presumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 favour	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 favour	cop
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 favour	case
41	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 millennium	appos
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 origin	case
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 origin	det
44	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 origin	amod
45	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 favour	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past			there		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	bear	participle			there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	present	we	any criterion		scarcely property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent criterion=Patient
4	judge	gerund	any criterion not said here				vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
5	trace	can · passive		more		among the folk in India	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: more=Theme
6	is	present	the presumption		favour	of a Indian origin	tree rules

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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