Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 22

My _remarks_ have been mainly devoted to tracing the relation between the Indian and the European tales, with the object of showing that the latter have been derived from the former.

Who acts: remarks, object, My · What happens: be, trace, show, derive, remark · To what, where: relation, latter, former · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (remarks, object, My), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 remarks	nmod:poss
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 remarks	punct
3	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 devoted	nsubj
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 remarks	punct
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 devoted	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 devoted	cop
7	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	8 devoted	advmod
8	devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	SCONJ	_	10 tracing	mark
10	tracing	trace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 devoted	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 relation	det
12	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tracing	obj
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 Indian	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Indian	det
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 relation	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tales	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tales	det
18	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tales	amod
19	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 relation	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 object	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 object	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 object	det
23	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tracing	obl
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 showing	mark
25	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 object	acl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 derived	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 latter	det
28	latter	latter	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 derived	nsubj:pass
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 derived	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 derived	aux:pass
31	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 showing	ccomp
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 former	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 former	det
34	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 derived	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 devoted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	My remarks			devoted, mainly property	tree rules
2	trace	gerund	My remarks not said here	the relation and the European tales		between the Indian; with the object	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Theme
3	show	gerund	the object not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	derive	present · perfect · passive		the latter	the former		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from former=Material
5	remark		My				nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=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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