Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 20

The whole incident, indeed, is a striking example of the dangers of the anthropological method of dealing with folk-tales before some attempt is made to settle the questions of origin and diffusion.

Who acts: whole incident, anthropological method, folk tales, attempt · What happens: strike, be, deal, make, settle, question · To what, where: striking example, attempt, questions, origin

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 (whole incident, anthropological method, folk tales, attempt), 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 incident	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 incident	amod
3	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 example	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 incident	punct
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	3 incident	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 incident	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 example	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 example	det
9	striking	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 example	amod
10	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 dangers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dangers	det
13	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 example	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 method	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 method	det
16	anthropological	anthropological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 method	amod
17	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dangers	nmod
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 dealing	mark
19	dealing	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 method	acl
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 tales	case
21	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tales	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 folk	punct
23	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dealing	obl
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 made	mark
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 attempt	det
26	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux:pass
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 tales	acl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 settle	mark
30	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 made	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 questions	det
32	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 settle	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 origin	case
34	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 questions	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 diffusion	cc
36	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 origin	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 example	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	strike	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	the whole incident	a striking example	of the dangers of the anthropological method	tree rules
3	deal	gerund	the anthropological method not said here		with folk tales	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tale=Theme
4	make	present · passive	folk tales not said here	some attempt		tree rules
5	settle	to-infinitive	some attempt not said here	the questions of origin and diffusion		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme question=Location
6	question			origin and diffusion		nom question «communication 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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