Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 36

Benfey contended with enormous erudition that the majority of folk-tale incidents were to be found in the Bidpai literature.

Who acts: Benfey · What happens: contend, find · To what, where: majority, Bidpai literature

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 (Benfey), 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	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 contended	nsubj
2	contended	contend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 erudition	case
4	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 erudition	amod
5	erudition	erudition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contended	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 found	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 majority	det
8	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 incidents	case
10	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tale	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 folk	punct
12	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 incidents	compound
13	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 majority	nmod
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	aux:pass
15	to	to	PART	_	17 found	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 found	aux:pass
17	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 contended	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 literature	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 literature	det
20	Bidpai	Bidpai	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 literature	compound
21	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 contended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contend	past	Benfey					with enormous erudition	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with erudition=Co-Agent
2	find	past · passive		the majority of tale incidents		the Bidpai literature			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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