--- title: The human mind may be the same everywhere, but it is not likely to h… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The human mind may be the same everywhere, but it is not likely to hit upon the sequence of incidents, _Direction tabu_--_Grateful Animals_--_Bride-wager_--_Tasks_, by accident, or independently: Europe must have borrowed from India, or India from Europe. Who acts: human mind, it. A sentence of «Ind --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/33/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [II. Princess Labam.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/33/) / 19 # Indian Fairy Tales, II. Princess Labam., sentence 19 The human mind may be the same everywhere, but it is not likely to hit upon the sequence of incidents, \_Direction tabu\_--\_Grateful Animals\_--\_Bride-wager\_--\_Tasks\_, by accident, or independently: Europe must have borrowed from India, or India from Europe. **Who acts:** human mind, it · **What happens:** be, not be, hit, borrow · **To what, where:** Europe, India This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (human mind, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:33:19 # text = The human mind may be the same everywhere, but it is not likely to hit upon the sequence of incidents, _Direction tabu_--_Grateful Animals_--_Bride-wager_--_Tasks_, by accident, or independently: Europe must have borrowed from India, or India from Europe. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 upon upon ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sequence sequence NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 incidents incident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 tabu tabu NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 -- -- PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Grateful grateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 wager wager NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 37 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 -- -- PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 Tasks task NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 41 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 or or CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 independently independently ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 : : PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 49 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 50 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 51 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 52 aux _ _ 52 borrowed borrow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 53 from from ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 or or CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 58 from from ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | may | the human mind | | | | | by accident; everywhere, independently, same *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | it | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hit** | to-infinitive | | | | | | upon the sequence of incidents | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **borrow** | must · perfect · passive | | Europe | | India | | India from Europe *obl* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from india=Source | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/33/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/33/20/) - ↑ back to [II. 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