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title: The wives for this reason bore their sister-in-law much ill-will, an… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The wives for this reason bore their sister-in-law much ill-will, and at length they combined together to oust her from the office of cook and general provider, so that one of themselves might obtain it. Who acts: wives, brothers, one. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 12

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The wives for this reason bore their sister-in-law much ill-will, and at length they combined together to oust her from the office of cook and general provider, so that one of themselves might obtain it.

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**Who acts:** wives, brothers, one · **What happens:** bear, combine, oust, obtain · **To what, where:** much, sister, law, length, office, cooking

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wives, brothers, one), 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:pg7128:11:12
# text = The wives for this reason bore their sister-in-law much ill-will, and at length they combined together to oust her from the office of cook and general provider, so that one of themselves might obtain it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
14	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	combined	combine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	oust	oust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	provider	provider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	42	mark	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	nmod	_	_
41	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past | the wives for this reason | much | brothers's sister | law |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent sister=Beneficiary much=Patient |
| 2 | **combine** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  | length |  | together *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **oust** | to-infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | sister |  | the office of cook and general provider |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from office=Source |
| 4 | **obtain** | might | one of brothers | cooking |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme |

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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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