Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 7

The chief points about them are--(1) though the tale does not exist in either Phædrus or Babrius, it occurs in prose derivates from the Latin by Ademar, 65, and "Romulus," ii.

Who acts: chief points, tale · What happens: be, not exist, occur · To what, where: Phædrus, ii, prose derivates

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief points, tale), 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 points	det
2	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 points	amod
3	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 are	nsubj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 points	nmod
6	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 1	punct
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 1	punct
9	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 are	nsubj
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 1	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 exist	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tale	det
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 exist	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 exist	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 exist	advmod
16	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 1	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 Phædrus	case
18	either	either	CCONJ	_	19 Phædrus	cc:preconj
19	Phædrus	Phædrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 exist	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 Babrius	cc
21	Babrius	Babrius	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Phædrus	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 occurs	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 occurs	nsubj
24	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 exist	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 derivates	case
26	prose	prose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 derivates	compound
27	derivates	derivate	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 occurs	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 Latin	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Latin	det
30	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 occurs	obl
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 Ademar	case
32	Ademar	Ademar	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 occurs	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 65	punct
34	65	65	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 Ademar	appos
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ii	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ii	cc
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 Romulus	punct
38	Romulus	Romulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 ii	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Romulus	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 Romulus	punct
41	ii	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	24 occurs	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	the chief points about Parallels				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not exist	present · do-support	the tale		Phædrus or Babrius		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in phædrus=Location
3	occur	present	tale	ii	prose derivates	from the Latin; by Ademar	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in derivate=Location

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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