Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 19

It is obvious, therefore, that it cannot be used as anthropological evidence of the existence of the primitive customs to be found in it.

Who acts: existence, primitive customs · What happens: be, not use, find, evidence, exist · To what, where: existence

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, primitive customs), 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 obvious	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 obvious	cop
3	obvious	obvious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 therefore	punct
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 obvious	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 used	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 used	nsubj:pass
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 used	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 used	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	aux:pass
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 obvious	conj
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 evidence	case
14	anthropological	anthropological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 evidence	amod
15	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 used	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 existence	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 existence	det
18	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 evidence	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 customs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 customs	det
21	primitive	primitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 customs	amod
22	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 existence	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	25 found	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 found	aux:pass
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 used	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obvious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	existence			obvious, therefore property	tree rules
2	not use	can · passive		existence		as anthropological evidence of the existence of the primitive customs	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as evidence=Attribute
3	find	to-infinitive · passive			existence		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
4	evidence			the existence of the primitive customs			nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	exist		the primitive customs				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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