Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 14

I say Buddhist missionaries, because there is a certain amount of evidence that the negroes have Buddhistic symbols among them, and we can only explain the identification of Brer Rabbit with Prince Five Weapons, and so with Buddha himself, by supposing the change to have originated among Buddhists, where it would be quite natural.

Who acts: I, certain amount, negroes, we, Buddha, amount · What happens: say, be, have, explain, suppose, originate · To what, where: Buddhist missionaries, Buddhistic symbols, identification, change, evidence, Brer Rabbit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, certain amount, negroes, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 missionaries	amod
4	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 is	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 amount	det
10	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 amount	amod
11	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 evidence	case
13	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 amount	nmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 negroes	det
16	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 evidence	acl
18	Buddhistic	buddhistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 symbols	amod
19	symbols	symbol	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
20	among	among	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 symbols	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 explain	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 explain	cc
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 explain	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 explain	aux
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 explain	advmod
27	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 identification	det
29	identification	identification	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 explain	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Rabbit	case
31	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Rabbit	compound
32	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 identification	nmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 Prince	case
34	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 explain	obl
35	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 Weapons	nummod
36	Weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 explain	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Buddha	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 Buddha	cc
39	so	so	ADV	_	41 Buddha	advmod
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 Buddha	case
41	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 say	parataxis
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 Buddha	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Buddha	punct
44	by	by	SCONJ	_	45 supposing	mark
45	supposing	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 Buddha	acl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 change	det
47	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 supposing	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	50 originated	mark
49	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 originated	aux
50	originated	originate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 change	acl
51	among	among	ADP	_	52 Buddhists	case
52	Buddhists	Buddhist	PROPN	Number=Plur	50 originated	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 natural	punct
54	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	59 natural	advmod
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 natural	nsubj
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 natural	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 natural	cop
58	quite	quite	ADV	_	59 natural	advmod
59	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 Buddhists	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	I	Buddhist missionaries			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent missionary=Topic
2	be	present	a certain amount of evidence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	the negroes	Buddhistic symbols		among missionaries = missionary	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent symbol=Patient
4	explain speech: assert	can	we	the identification of Brer Rabbit		with Prince	tree rules
5	suppose	gerund	Buddha Prince not said here	the change			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent change=Attribute
6	originate	to-infinitive · perfect	Buddha Prince not said here	the change not said here		among Buddhists	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is	would	amount			natural property	tree rules
8	amount			evidence			nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient
9	identify			Brer Rabbit			nom identification «act transitive»: of=patient

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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