Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 26

They were borrowed from one nation to the other, and till we have reason shown to the contrary, the original lender was a Hindu.

Who acts: original lender · What happens: borrow, show, be · To what, where: convolutions, one nation, contrary, Hindu

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (original lender), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 borrowed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 borrowed	aux:pass
3	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 nation	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nation	nummod
6	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 borrowed	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 other	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 borrowed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shown	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shown	cc
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 shown	aux
15	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
16	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 borrowed	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 contrary	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 contrary	det
19	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shown	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Hindu	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lender	det
22	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lender	amod
23	lender	lender	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Hindu	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 Hindu	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Hindu	det
26	Hindu	Hindu	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 contrary	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 borrowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	borrow	past · passive		convolutions = convolution		one nation	to the other	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from nation=Source
2	show	present · perfect			the contrary			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to contrary=Recipient
3	is a	past	the original lender	a Hindu				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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