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title: My _remarks_ have been mainly devoted to tracing the relation betwee… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My _remarks_ have been mainly devoted to tracing the relation between the Indian and the European tales, with the object of showing that the latter have been derived from the former. Who acts: remarks, object, My. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, par
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 22

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My \_remarks\_ have been mainly devoted to tracing the relation between the Indian and the European tales, with the object of showing that the latter have been derived from the former.

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**Who acts:** remarks, object, My · **What happens:** be, trace, show, derive, remark · **To what, where:** relation, latter, former · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remarks, object, My), 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:pg7128:31:22
# text = My _remarks_ have been mainly devoted to tracing the relation between the Indian and the European tales, with the object of showing that the latter have been derived from the former.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	tracing	trace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	latter	latter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present · perfect | My remarks |  |  |  |  | devoted, mainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **trace** | gerund | My remarks *not said here* | the relation and the European tales |  |  |  | between the Indian; with the object | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | the object *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **derive** | present · perfect · passive |  | the latter |  | the former |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from former=Material |
| 5 | **remark** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom remark «communication transitive»: 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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