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title: The Hindus have been more successful than others, because of two fac… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 9

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The Hindus have been more successful than others, because of two facts: they have had the appropriate "atmosphere" of metempsychosis, and they have also had spread among the people sufficient literary training and mental grip to invent plots.

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**Who acts:** Hindus, others · **What happens:** be, have, spread, invent · **To what, where:** appropriate atmosphere, plots

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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 (Hindus, others), 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:pg7128:31:9
# text = The Hindus have been more successful than others, because of two facts: they have had the appropriate "atmosphere" of metempsychosis, and they have also had spread among the people sufficient literary training and mental grip to invent plots.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	metempsychosis	metempsychosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	also	also	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux	_	_
31	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
32	among	among	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl	_	_
43	plots	plot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | the Hindus |  |  |  |  | than others; successful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present · perfect | others *= other* | the appropriate atmosphere of metempsychosis |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atmosphere=Patient |
| 3 | **spread** | present · perfect | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | among the people  sufficient literary training and mental grip | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among people=Location |
| 4 | **invent** | to-infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* | plots |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Result |

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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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