Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 71
M. Cosquin further contends that the whole of these have come from the East, ultimately from India, not by literary transmission, as Benfey contended, but by oral transmission.
Who acts: M., whole, Benfey · What happens: contend, come · To what, where: India, East
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 (M., whole, 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 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 contends | nsubj |
| 2 | Cosquin | Cosquin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 M. | flat |
| 3 | further | further | ADV | _ | 4 contends | advmod |
| 4 | contends | contend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 whole | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 come | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 these | case |
| 9 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 whole | nmod |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 contends | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 East | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 East | det |
| 14 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 India | punct |
| 16 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 18 India | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 India | case |
| 18 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 contends | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 transmission | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 transmission | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 transmission | case |
| 22 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 transmission | amod |
| 23 | transmission | transmission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contends | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 contended | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 contended | mark |
| 26 | Benfey | Benfey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 contended | nsubj |
| 27 | contended | contend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 transmission | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 transmission | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 transmission | cc |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 transmission | case |
| 31 | oral | oral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 transmission | amod |
| 32 | transmission | transmission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 contended | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 contends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contend | present | M. | India | further property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | the whole of these | the East | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from east=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | contend | past | Benfey | by oral transmission | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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