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title: The moral of this is, that India belongs to a group of peoples who h… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The moral of this is, that India belongs to a group of peoples who have a common store of stories; India belongs to Europe for purposes of comparative folk-tales. Who acts: moral, peoples, India, comparative folk tales. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 19
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 92

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The moral of this is, that India belongs to a group of peoples who have a common store of stories; India belongs to Europe for purposes of comparative folk-tales.

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**Who acts:** moral, peoples, India, comparative folk tales · **What happens:** be, have, belong, purpose · **To what, where:** common store, Europe

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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 (moral, peoples, India, comparative folk 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:pg7128:30:92
# text = The moral of this is, that India belongs to a group of peoples who have a common store of stories; India belongs to Europe for purposes of comparative folk-tales.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	comparative	comparative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the moral of this |  |  |  |  | to a group of peoples; belong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | peoples | a common store of stories |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Patient |
| 3 | **belong** | present | India |  | Europe |  |  | for purposes of comparative folk tales | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **purpose** |  | comparative folk tales |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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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