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title: It is obvious, therefore, that it cannot be used as anthropological… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is obvious, therefore, that it cannot be used as anthropological evidence of the existence of the primitive customs to be found in it. Who acts: existence, primitive customs. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., with its dependency tree and the
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 19

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It is obvious, therefore, that it cannot be used as anthropological evidence of the existence of the primitive customs to be found in it.

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**Who acts:** existence, primitive customs · **What happens:** be, not use, find, evidence, exist · **To what, where:** existence

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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, primitive customs), 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:pg7128:59:19
# text = It is obvious, therefore, that it cannot be used as anthropological evidence of the existence of the primitive customs to be found in it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	obvious	obvious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	anthropological	anthropological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	primitive	primitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | existence |  |  |  |  | obvious, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **use** | can · passive |  | existence |  |  |  | as anthropological evidence of the existence of the primitive customs | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as evidence=Attribute |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | existence |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 4 | **evidence** |  |  | the existence of the primitive customs |  |  |  |  | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **exist** |  | the primitive customs |  |  |  |  |  | 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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