Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 92

The moral of this is, that India belongs to a group of peoples who have a common store of stories; India belongs to Europe for purposes of comparative folk-tales.

Who acts: moral, peoples, India, comparative folk tales · What happens: be, have, belong, purpose · To what, where: common store, Europe

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 (moral, peoples, India, comparative folk tales), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moral	det
2	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 belongs	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 moral	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 belongs	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 belongs	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 belongs	mark
8	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 belongs	nsubj
9	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 group	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 group	det
12	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 belongs	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 peoples	case
14	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 group	nmod
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 peoples	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 store	det
18	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 store	amod
19	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 stories	case
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 store	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 belongs	punct
23	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 belongs	nsubj
24	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 belongs	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Europe	case
26	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 belongs	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 purposes	case
28	purposes	purpose	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 belongs	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 tales	case
30	comparative	comparative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tales	amod
31	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tales	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 folk	punct
33	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 purposes	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 belongs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the moral of this			to a group of peoples; belong property	tree rules
2	have	present	peoples	a common store of stories			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Patient
3	belong	present	India		Europe	for purposes of comparative folk tales	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	purpose		comparative folk tales				nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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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