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title: The majority of the tales in this volume have been known in the West… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The majority of the tales in this volume have been known in the West in some form or other, and the problem arises how to account for their simultaneous existence in farthest West and East. Who acts: problem, tales. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs, with its depende
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 14

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The majority of the tales in this volume have been known in the West in some form or other, and the problem arises how to account for their simultaneous existence in farthest West and East.

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**Who acts:** problem, tales · **What happens:** know, arise, exist · **To what, where:** majority, West

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (problem, tales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7128:3:14
# text = The majority of the tales in this volume have been known in the West in some form or other, and the problem arises how to account for their simultaneous existence in farthest West and East.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	arises	arise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	TO	_	27	case	_	_
27	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	simultaneous	simultaneous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	farthest	far	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	nmod	_	_
34	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · perfect · passive |  | the majority of the tales in this volume |  | the West |  | in some form | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **arise** | present | the problem |  |  |  |  | to account; for tales's simultaneous existence  West in farthest and East | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **exist** |  | tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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