Indian Fairy Tales, II. Princess Labam., sentence 14

Similarly, the "Bride Wager" incident at the end is common to a large number of Indian and European folk-tales (Temple, Analysis, p. 430; my List, _l.c. sub voce_).

Who acts: Wager incident, my · What happens: be, list

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wager incident, 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	Similarly	similarly	ADV	_	13 common	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Similarly	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 incident	det
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Wager	punct
5	Bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Wager	compound
6	Wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 incident	compound
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 incident	punct
8	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 common	nsubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 incident	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 common	cop
13	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 number	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 number	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 number	amod
17	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 common	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	24 tales	case
19	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tales	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 European	cc
21	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Indian	conj
22	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tales	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 folk	punct
24	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 number	nmod
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 Temple	punct
26	Temple	Temple	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 tales	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Analysis	punct
28	Analysis	Analysis	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Temple	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 p.	punct
30	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Temple	conj
31	430	430	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 p.	flat
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 List	punct
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 List	nmod:poss
34	List	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 common	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 l.c	punct
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 l.c	punct
37	l.c	l.c	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 List	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 common	punct
39	sub	sub	ADV	_	13 common	nsubj
40	voce	voce	X	_	39 sub	goeswith
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	39 sub	punct
42	)	)	PUNCT	_	39 sub	punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 common	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Wager incident at the end					to a large number of Indian folk tales; common, similarly property	tree rules
2	list		my						nom list «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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