Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 2

And generally, so far as the incidents are marvellous and of true fairy-tale character, the presumption is in favour of India, because of the vitality of animism or metempsychosis in India throughout all historic time.

Who acts: incidents, presumption · What happens: be · To what, where: favour

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 (incidents, presumption), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 marvellous	cc
2	generally	generally	ADV	_	10 marvellous	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 far	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 marvellous	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 marvellous	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 incidents	det
8	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 marvellous	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 marvellous	cop
10	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 character	cc
12	of	of	ADP	_	17 character	case
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 character	amod
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tale	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 fairy	punct
16	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 character	compound
17	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marvellous	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 favour	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 presumption	det
20	presumption	presumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 favour	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 favour	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 favour	case
23	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 character	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 India	case
25	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 favour	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 vitality	punct
27	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	30 vitality	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 because	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 vitality	det
30	vitality	vitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marvellous	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 animism	case
32	animism	animism	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 vitality	nmod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 metempsychosis	cc
34	metempsychosis	metempsychosis	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 vitality	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 India	case
36	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 metempsychosis	nmod
37	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	40 time	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 time	det
39	historic	historic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 time	amod
40	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 metempsychosis	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 marvellous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the incidents					far, generally, marvellous property	tree rules
2	is	present	the presumption			favour		of India	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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