Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 34

It is certain that much (perhaps one-fifth) of the popular literature of modern Europe is derived from those portions of this large bulk which came west with the Crusades through the medium of Arabs and Jews.

Who acts: part, large bulk · What happens: be, derive, come · To what, where: much one fifth, portions, medium

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: who acts (part, large bulk), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 certain	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 certain	cop
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 derived	mark
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fifth	amod
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 fifth	punct
7	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	10 fifth	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 fifth	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
10	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 derived	nsubj
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 fifth	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 literature	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 literature	det
14	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 literature	amod
15	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fifth	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Europe	case
17	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Europe	amod
18	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 literature	nmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 derived	aux:pass
20	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 certain	advcl
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 portions	case
22	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 portions	det
23	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 derived	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 bulk	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 bulk	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bulk	amod
27	bulk	bulk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 portions	nmod
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bulk	acl:relcl
30	west	west	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 Crusades	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Crusades	det
33	Crusades	Crusade	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 came	obl
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 medium	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 medium	det
36	medium	medium	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Arabs	case
38	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	Number=Plur	36 medium	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Jews	cc
40	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	38 Arabs	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 certain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	part			certain property	tree rules
2	derive	present · passive		much one fifth of the popular literature of modern Europe	that portions of this large bulk		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from portion=Material
3	come	past	this large bulk		the medium of Arabs and Jews	with the Crusades; west property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through medium=Initial_Location

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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