Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 101
On the other hand, Mr. Frazer in his _Golden Bough_ has shown the wide spread of the idea among all savage or semi-savage tribes.
What happens: show, spread · To what, where: Frazer, other hand, idea
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shown | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Frazer | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Frazer | Frazer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 _ | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 _ | nmod:poss |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 _ | punct |
| 11 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 _ | amod |
| 12 | Bough | Bough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 _ | compound |
| 13 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Frazer | nmod |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 shown | aux |
| 15 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spread | det |
| 17 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spread | amod |
| 18 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shown | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 idea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 idea | det |
| 21 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spread | nmod |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 tribes | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 tribes | det |
| 24 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tribes | amod |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 semi-savage | cc |
| 26 | semi-savage | semi-savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 savage | conj |
| 27 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shown | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · perfect · passive | Frazer Mr. in Frazer's Golden Bough _ | the other hand | among all savage tribes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient spread=Topic | |||
| 2 | spread | the idea | nom spread «event 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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