--- title: There is, so far as I know, no proof of the earliest part of the Ras… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There is, so far as I know, no proof of the earliest part of the Rasalu legend (_our_ part) coming to Europe, except the existence of the gambling incidents of the same kind in Celtic and other folk-tales. Who acts: I, proof, gambling incidents. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/50/21/) [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/) / [XIX. Raja Rasalu.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/50/) / 21 # Indian Fairy Tales, XIX. Raja Rasalu., sentence 21 There is, so far as I know, no proof of the earliest part of the Rasalu legend (\_our\_ part) coming to Europe, except the existence of the gambling incidents of the same kind in Celtic and other folk-tales. **Who acts:** I, proof, gambling incidents · **What happens:** be, know, come, proof, exist · **To what, where:** Europe, earliest part This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Raja Rasalu.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, proof, gambling incidents), 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:pg7128:50:21 # text = There is, so far as I know, no proof of the earliest part of the Rasalu legend (_our_ part) coming to Europe, except the existence of the gambling incidents of the same kind in Celtic and other folk-tales. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 earliest early ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 Rasalu Rasalu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 24 punct _ _ 24 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 except except ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 existence existence NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 gambling gambling NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 incidents incident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Celtic Celtic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 44 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 45 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | | | | there | | far *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **know** | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **come** | gerund | no proof of the earliest part of the Rasalu legend *not said here* | | | Europe | | except the existence of the gambling incidents of the same kind in Celtic and other folk tales | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to europe=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **proof** | | | the earliest part of the Rasalu legend | | | | | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **exist** | | the gambling incidents of the same kind in Celtic and other folk tales | | | | | | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/50/20/) - next →: [XX. the Ass in the Lion's Sk…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/51/1/) - ↑ back to [XIX. 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