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title: The existence of the tale in India renders it likely enough that it… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The existence of the tale in India renders it likely enough that it is not indigenous to the British Isles, but an Oriental importation. Who acts: existence, tale. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 18

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The existence of the tale in India renders it likely enough that it is not indigenous to the British Isles, but an Oriental importation.

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**Who acts:** existence, tale · **What happens:** render, not be, exist · **To what, where:** parent

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (existence, tale), 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:pg7128:59:18
# text = The existence of the tale in India renders it likely enough that it is not indigenous to the British Isles, but an Oriental importation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	renders	render	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Isles	Isle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Oriental	oriental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	importation	importation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **render** | present | the existence of the tale in India | parent |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | existence |  |  |  |  | to the British Isles; indigenous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **exist** |  | the tale in India |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state 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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