Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 6

The mere fact that contiguous countries have more similarities in their story store than distant ones is sufficient to prove this: indeed, the fact that any single country has spread throughout it a definite set of folk-tales as distinctive as its flora and fauna, is sufficient to prove it.

Who acts: contiguous countries, mere fact, fact · What happens: have, be, prove, spread · To what, where: more similarities, story store, this, single country, fact

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 (contiguous countries, mere fact, fact), 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 fact	det
2	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fact	amod
3	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sufficient	nsubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
5	contiguous	contiguous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 countries	amod
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fact	acl
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 similarities	amod
9	similarities	similarity	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 store	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 store	nmod:poss
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 store	compound
13	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 ones	case
15	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ones	amod
16	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 store	nmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sufficient	cop
18	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 prove	mark
20	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sufficient	xcomp
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 prove	obj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 fact	punct
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	26 fact	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 indeed	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fact	det
26	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 sufficient	nsubj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 spread	mark
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 country	det
29	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 country	amod
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spread	nsubj:pass
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 spread	aux
32	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 fact	acl
33	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spread	obl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 set	det
36	definite	definite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 set	amod
37	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spread	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 tales	case
39	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tales	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 folk	punct
41	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 set	nmod
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 distinctive	advmod
43	distinctive	distinctive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 tales	amod
44	as	as	ADP	_	46 flora	case
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 flora	nmod:poss
46	flora	flora	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 distinctive	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 fauna	cc
48	fauna	fauna	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 flora	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fact	punct
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 sufficient	cop
51	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sufficient	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 prove	mark
53	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 sufficient	xcomp
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 prove	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 sufficient	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	contiguous countries	more similarities	countries's story store than distant ones			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent similarity=Patient
2	is	present	the mere fact				sufficient property	tree rules
3	prove	to-infinitive	the mere fact not said here	this				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
4	spread	present · perfect · passive	the fact not said here	any single country		throughout fact		tree rules
5	is	present	the fact				sufficient property	tree rules
6	prove	to-infinitive	the fact not said here	fact				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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