--- title: The belief in an external soul "Life Index," recently monographed by… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The belief in an external soul "Life Index," recently monographed by Mr. Frazer in his "Golden Bough," also finds expression in a couple of the Tales (see notes on "Sea-Maiden" and "Fair, Brown, and Trembling"), and so with many other primitive ideas. Who acts: belief. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (belief), 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:pg7885:34:68 # text = The belief in an external soul "Life Index," recently monographed by Mr. Frazer in his "Golden Bough," also finds expression in a couple of the Tales (see notes on "Sea-Maiden" and "Fair, Brown, and Trembling"), and so with many other primitive ideas. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 belief belief NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 external external ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Life Life PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Index Index PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 recently recently ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 monographed monograph VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:desc _ _ 16 Frazer Frazer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Bough Bough PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 also also ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Tales Tale PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 35 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 Maiden Maiden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 46 Brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 Trembling Trembling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 54 so so ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 55 with with ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 56 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 57 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 58 primitive primitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **monograph** | participle | | Life Index *not said here* | | belief's Golden Bough | | by Frazer Mr.; recently *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | present | the belief in a external soul | expression | | a couple of the Tales | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent expression=Attribute clause=Theme | | 3 | **see** | infinitive | the belief in a external soul *not said here* | notes | | Sea Maiden | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | 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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/69/) - ↑ back to [Notes and References](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/34/)