Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 74

Borrowing tales is a mutual process, and when Indian meets European, European meets Indian; which borrowed from which, is a question which we have very few criteria to decide.

Who acts: Borrowing, mutual process, we · What happens: borrow, be, meet, have, decide · To what, where: tales, mutual process, question

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 (Borrowing, mutual process, we), 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	Borrowing	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 process	csubj
2	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Borrowing	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 process	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 process	det
5	mutual	mutual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 process	amod
6	process	process	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 question	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 meets	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 meets	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 Indian	advmod
10	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meets	amod
11	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 process	parataxis
12	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meets	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 meets	punct
14	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 meets	amod
15	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 meets	conj
16	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 meets	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 borrowed	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 borrowed	nsubj
19	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 process	conj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 borrowed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 process	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 question	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 question	det
25	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 have	obj
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 question	acl:relcl
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 few	advmod
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 criteria	amod
31	criteria	criterion	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 decide	mark
33	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 criteria	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	borrow	gerund		tales		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
2	is a	present	Borrowing	a mutual process		tree rules
3	meet	present			european property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	meet	present			indian property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	borrow	past	a mutual process	a mutual process		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
6	is a	present	a mutual process	a question		tree rules
7	have	present	we	a question		tree rules
8	decide	to-infinitive	we not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «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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