Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 39

But he made it clear that for beast-tales and for drolls, the majority of those current in the mouths of occidental people were derived from Eastern and mainly Indian sources.

Who acts: introduction · What happens: make, droll, derive · To what, where: extent, Eastern sources

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 (introduction), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 made	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 derived	mark
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 tales	case
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tales	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 beast	punct
10	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 derived	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drolls	cc
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 drolls	case
13	drolls	droll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tales	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 majority	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 majority	det
16	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tales	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 current	case
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 current	det
19	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 majority	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 mouths	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mouths	det
22	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 current	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 people	case
24	occidental	occidental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mouths	nmod
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 derived	aux:pass
27	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 made	advcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	33 sources	case
29	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sources	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Indian	cc
31	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	32 Indian	advmod
32	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Eastern	conj
33	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 derived	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	introduction	extent		clear property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
2	droll	present					tree rules
3	derive	past · passive	introduction not said here		Eastern sources	for beast tales the majority of that current in the mouths of occidental people	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from source=Material

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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