Indian Fairy Tales, XII. the Charmed Ring., sentence 22

It is impossible to imagine that incident--occurring in the same series of incidents--to have been invented more than once, and if that part of the story has been borrowed from India, there is no reason why the whole of it should not have arisen in India, and have been spread to the West.

What happens: be, imagine, occur, invent, borrow, not arise · To what, where: incident, same series, more, part, India, reason

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XII. the Charmed Ring.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 impossible	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 impossible	cop
3	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 imagine	mark
5	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 impossible	csubj
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 incident	det
7	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 imagine	obj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 occurring	punct
9	occurring	occur	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 impossible	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 series	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 series	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 series	amod
13	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 occurring	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 incidents	case
15	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 series	nmod
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 invented	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	20 invented	mark
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 invented	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 invented	aux:pass
20	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 impossible	parataxis
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 invented	obj
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 more	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 reason	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 reason	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 borrowed	mark
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 part	det
28	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 borrowed	nsubj:pass
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 story	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 story	det
31	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 part	nmod
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 borrowed	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 borrowed	aux:pass
34	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 is	advcl
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 India	case
36	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 borrowed	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 borrowed	punct
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 is	expl
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 reason	cop
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 reason	det
41	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 impossible	parataxis
42	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	50 arisen	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 whole	det
44	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 arisen	parataxis
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 whole	obl
47	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 arisen	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 arisen	advmod
49	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 arisen	aux
50	arisen	arise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 reason	acl:relcl
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 India	case
52	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 arisen	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 spread	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 spread	cc
55	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 spread	aux
56	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 spread	aux:pass
57	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 arisen	conj
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 West	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 West	det
60	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 spread	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present			impossible property	tree rules
2	imagine	to-infinitive	that incident			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot incident=Theme
3	occur	gerund		the same series of incidents		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in series=Location
4	invent	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	more			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: more=Result
5	borrow a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect · passive	that part of the story	India		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from india=Source
6	is a	present	no reason			tree rules
7	not arise	should · perfect		India		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in india=Location
8	spread	present · perfect · passive			to the West	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»

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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