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title: You have spoken to him angrily for twelve long years; now rather spe… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You have spoken to him angrily for twelve long years; now rather speak kindly. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 32

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You have spoken to him angrily for twelve long years; now rather speak kindly.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** speak · **To what, where:** son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg7128:10:32
# text = You have spoken to him angrily for twelve long years; now rather speak kindly.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | You |  | son |  | year | angrily *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now | kindly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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