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title: M. Cosquin further contends that the whole of these have come from t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: M. Cosquin further contends that the whole of these have come from the East, ultimately from India, not by literary transmission, as Benfey contended, but by oral transmission. Who acts: M., whole, Benfey. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, wi
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 71

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M. Cosquin further contends that the whole of these have come from the East, ultimately from India, not by literary transmission, as Benfey contended, but by oral transmission.

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**Who acts:** M., whole, Benfey · **What happens:** contend, come · **To what, where:** India, East

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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 (M., whole, 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:pg7128:30:71
# text = M. Cosquin further contends that the whole of these have come from the East, ultimately from India, not by literary transmission, as Benfey contended, but by oral transmission.
1	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	further	further	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	contends	contend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nmod	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	transmission	transmission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	contended	contend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	transmission	transmission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contend** | present | M. |  |  | India |  | further *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present · perfect | the whole of these |  |  | the East |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from east=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **contend** | past | Benfey |  |  |  |  | by oral transmission | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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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