Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 18

The existence of the tale in India renders it likely enough that it is not indigenous to the British Isles, but an Oriental importation.

Who acts: existence, tale · What happens: render, not be, exist · To what, where: parent

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (existence, 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	2 existence	det
2	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 renders	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tale	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tale	det
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 existence	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 India	case
7	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tale	nmod
8	renders	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 renders	obj
10	likely	likely	ADV	_	11 enough	advmod
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 renders	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 indigenous	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 indigenous	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 indigenous	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 indigenous	advmod
16	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 renders	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 Isles	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Isles	det
19	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Isles	amod
20	Isles	Isle	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 indigenous	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 importation	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 importation	cc
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 importation	det
24	Oriental	oriental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 importation	amod
25	importation	importation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 renders	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 renders	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	render	present	the existence of the tale in India	parent	enough property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not is	present	existence		to the British Isles; indigenous property	tree rules
3	exist		the tale in India			nom existence «state intransitive»: of=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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