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title: Benfey contended with enormous erudition that the majority of folk-t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Benfey contended with enormous erudition that the majority of folk-tale incidents were to be found in the Bidpai literature. Who acts: Benfey. 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 36

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Benfey contended with enormous erudition that the majority of folk-tale incidents were to be found in the Bidpai literature.

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**Who acts:** Benfey · **What happens:** contend, find · **To what, where:** majority, Bidpai literature

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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: who acts (Benfey), 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:pg7128:30:36
# text = Benfey contended with enormous erudition that the majority of folk-tale incidents were to be found in the Bidpai literature.
1	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	contended	contend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	erudition	erudition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Bidpai	Bidpai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contend** | past | Benfey |  |  |  |  | with enormous erudition | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with erudition=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive |  | the majority of tale incidents |  | the Bidpai literature |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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