Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 8

The question is as to the source of the tales that are common to all European children, and increasing evidence seems to show that this common nucleus is derived from India and India alone.

Who acts: question, tales, increasing · What happens: be, increase, seem, show, derive · To what, where: evidence, common nucleus, India · 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 (question, tales, increasing), 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	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 source	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 source	cop
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 source	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 source	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 source	det
7	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 tales	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tales	det
10	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 source	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 common	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 common	cop
13	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tales	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 children	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 children	det
16	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 children	amod
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 common	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seems	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seems	cc
20	increasing	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 seems	csubj
21	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 increasing	obj
22	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 source	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 show	mark
24	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 seems	xcomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 derived	mark
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 nucleus	det
27	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 nucleus	amod
28	nucleus	nucleus	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 derived	nsubj:pass
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 derived	aux:pass
30	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 show	ccomp
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 India	case
32	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 derived	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 India	cc
34	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 India	conj
35	alone	alone	ADV	_	30 derived	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 source	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the question			as the source; of the tales	tree rules
2	is	present	the tales			to all European children; common property	tree rules
3	increase	gerund		evidence			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer evidence=Patient
4	seem	present	increasing				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	show	to-infinitive	increasing not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	derive	present · passive		this common nucleus	India and India	alone property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from india=Material

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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