Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 93

Can we go further and say that India is the source of all the incidents that are held in common by European children?

Who acts: we, India, European children · What happens: go, say, be, hold · To what, where: source, incidents, common · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (we, India, European children), 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	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 go	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 source	mark
8	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 source	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 source	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 source	det
11	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	ccomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 incidents	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 incidents	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 incidents	det
15	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 source	nmod
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 held	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 held	aux:pass
18	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 incidents	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 common	case
20	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 held	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 children	case
22	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 children	amod
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 held	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	can	we			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	we not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	India	the source		of all incidents	tree rules
4	hold	present · passive	European children	all incidents	common		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in common=Location

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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