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title: On the other hand, Mr. Frazer in his _Golden Bough_ has shown the wi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the other hand, Mr. Frazer in his _Golden Bough_ has shown the wide spread of the idea among all savage or semi-savage tribes. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 101

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On the other hand, Mr. Frazer in his \_Golden Bough\_ has shown the wide spread of the idea among all savage or semi-savage tribes.

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**What happens:** show, spread · **To what, where:** Frazer, other hand, idea

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:30:101
# text = On the other hand, Mr. Frazer in his _Golden Bough_ has shown the wide spread of the idea among all savage or semi-savage tribes.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Frazer	Frazer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Bough	Bough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
24	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	semi-savage	semi-savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · perfect · passive |  | Frazer  Mr. in Frazer's Golden Bough \_ |  | the other hand |  | among all savage tribes | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient spread=Topic |
| 2 | **spread** |  |  | the idea |  |  |  |  | nom spread «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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