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title: There lived in a certain place a Brahman, whose name was Svabhavak_r… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There lived in a certain place a Brahman, whose name was Svabhavak_ri_pa_n_a, which means "a born miser." Who acts: name, n, Svabhavak. 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 83

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There lived in a certain place a Brahman, whose name was Svabhavak\_ri\_pa\_n\_a, which means "a born miser."

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**Who acts:** name, n, Svabhavak · **What happens:** live, be, mean, bear, name · **To what, where:** Brahman, certain place, Svabhavak, born miser · **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 (name, n, Svabhavak), 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:pg7128:10:83
# text = There lived in a certain place a Brahman, whose name was Svabhavak_ri_pa_n_a, which means "a born miser."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	Svabhavak	Svabhavak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ri	RI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n	n	X	GW	_	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	miser	miser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a Brahman and Svabhavak |  | a certain place; there |  | pa *obl* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Svabhavak's name | Svabhavak |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | n | a born miser |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miser=Topic |
| 4 | **bear** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **name** |  | Svabhavak |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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