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title: The mere fact that contiguous countries have more similarities in th… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The mere fact that contiguous countries have more similarities in their story store than distant ones is sufficient to prove this: indeed, the fact that any single country has spread throughout it a definite set of folk-tales as distinctive as its flora and fauna, is sufficient to prove it. Who acts
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 6

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The mere fact that contiguous countries have more similarities in their story store than distant ones is sufficient to prove this: indeed, the fact that any single country has spread throughout it a definite set of folk-tales as distinctive as its flora and fauna, is sufficient to prove it.

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**Who acts:** contiguous countries, mere fact, fact · **What happens:** have, be, prove, spread · **To what, where:** more similarities, story store, this, single country, fact

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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 (contiguous countries, mere fact, fact), 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:pg7128:31:6
# text = The mere fact that contiguous countries have more similarities in their story store than distant ones is sufficient to prove this: indeed, the fact that any single country has spread throughout it a definite set of folk-tales as distinctive as its flora and fauna, is sufficient to prove it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	contiguous	contiguous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	similarities	similarity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
33	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	definite	definite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	distinctive	distinctive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	flora	flora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	fauna	fauna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
50	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | contiguous countries | more similarities |  | countries's story store than distant ones |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent similarity=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the mere fact |  |  |  |  | sufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **prove** | to-infinitive | the mere fact *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 4 | **spread** | present · perfect · passive | the fact *not said here* | any single country |  |  | throughout fact |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the fact |  |  |  |  | sufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **prove** | to-infinitive | the fact *not said here* | fact |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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