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title: The story is a favourite one with the negroes: it occurs in Col. Jon… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The story is a favourite one with the negroes: it occurs in Col. Jones' _Negro Myths of the Georgia Coast_ (Uncle Remus is from S. Carolina), also among those of Brazil (Romero, _Contos do Brazil_), and in the West Indian Islands (Mr. Lang, "At the Sign of the Ship," _Longman's Magazine_, Feb. 1889)
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 9

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The story is a favourite one with the negroes: it occurs in Col. Jones' \_Negro Myths of the Georgia Coast\_ (Uncle Remus is from S. Carolina), also among those of Brazil (Romero, \_Contos do Brazil\_), and in the West Indian Islands (Mr. Lang, "At the Sign of the Ship," \_Longman's Magazine\_, Feb. 1889).

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**Who acts:** story, Uncle Remus, Contos · **What happens:** be, occur, do · **To what, where:** favourite one, Magazine, Col., S. Carolina, Brazil

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, Uncle Remus, Contos), 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:pg7128:56:9
# text = The story is a favourite one with the negroes: it occurs in Col. Jones' _Negro Myths of the Georgia Coast_ (Uncle Remus is from S. Carolina), also among those of Brazil (Romero, _Contos do Brazil_), and in the West Indian Islands (Mr. Lang, "At the Sign of the Ship," _Longman's Magazine_, Feb. 1889).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Col.	Col.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	Jones	Jones	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Negro	Negro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Myths	Myths	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Coast	Coast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Remus	remus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Carolina	Carolina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	also	also	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	among	among	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Romero	Romero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	_	_	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Contos	Conto	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
44	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
45	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
52	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
53	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
55	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod:desc	_	_
57	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
59	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	At	at	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	Sign	Sign	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	Ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	71	punct	_	_
68	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	71	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	Longman	Longman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	71	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	's	's	PART	POS	_	69	case	_	_
71	Magazine	Magazine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	71	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
74	Feb.	February	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	75	nmod:unmarked	_	_
75	1889	1889	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	71	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	75	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the story | a favourite one |  |  |  | with the negroes | tree rules |
| 2 | **occur** | present | story | Longman's Magazine |  | Col. |  | in the West Indian Islands  Lang  Mr.; at the Sign of the Ship | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Uncle Remus |  |  | S. Carolina |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | present | Contos | Brazil |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brazil=Eventuality |

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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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