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title: I should add that the mere conception of an external soul occurs in… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I should add that the mere conception of an external soul occurs in the oldest Egyptian tale of "The Two Brothers," but the wrappings are absent. Who acts: I, mere conception, wrappings, Two Brothers. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin., with its dependency tree and th
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# Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 27

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I should add that the mere conception of an external soul occurs in the oldest Egyptian tale of "The Two Brothers," but the wrappings are absent.

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**Who acts:** I, mere conception, wrappings, Two Brothers · **What happens:** add, occur, be, conceive, tell · **To what, where:** oldest Egyptian tale, external soul · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mere conception, wrappings, Two Brothers), 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:pg7128:35:27
# text = I should add that the mere conception of an external soul occurs in the oldest Egyptian tale of "The Two Brothers," but the wrappings are absent.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	external	external	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
16	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wrappings	wrapping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **occur** | present | the mere conception of a external soul |  |  | the oldest Egyptian tale of the Two Brothers |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tale=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the wrappings |  |  |  |  | absent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **conceive** |  |  | a external soul |  |  |  |  | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **tell** |  | the Two Brothers |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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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