Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 82
Yet it is dangerous to trust to mere non-appearance in literature as proof of non-existence among the folk.
Who acts: nature · What happens: be, trust, proof · To what, where: mere non-appearance, literature, non-existence
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 (nature), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 dangerous | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dangerous | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dangerous | cop |
| 4 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 trust | mark |
| 6 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dangerous | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 non-appearance | case |
| 8 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 non-appearance | amod |
| 9 | non-appearance | non-appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trust | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 literature | case |
| 11 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trust | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 proof | case |
| 13 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trust | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 non-existence | case |
| 15 | non-existence | non-existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proof | nmod |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 folk | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 folk | det |
| 18 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trust | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | nature | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trust | to-infinitive | nature not said here | mere non-appearance | literature | as proof of non-existence; among the folk | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to non-appearance=Recipient | ||
| 3 | proof | non-existence | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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