Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 15

The latter scholar has proved that there is a nucleus of stories in every European land which is common to all.

Who acts: latter scholar, nucleus, European land · What happens: prove, be

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter scholar, nucleus, European land), 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	3 scholar	det
2	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scholar	amod
3	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proved	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proved	aux
5	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 is	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proved	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nucleus	det
10	nucleus	nucleus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 stories	case
12	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nucleus	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 land	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 land	det
15	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 land	amod
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stories	nmod
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 common	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 common	cop
19	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 land	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 common	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 proved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	prove	present · perfect	the latter scholar			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	present	a nucleus of stories in every European land	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	every European land		to all; common property	tree rules

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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