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title: When he lifted his axe to cut high up the stem, the bamboo cried out… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he lifted his axe to cut high up the stem, the bamboo cried out, "Do not cut near the top, cut at the root." Who acts: Jogi, bamboo. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 35

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When he lifted his axe to cut high up the stem, the bamboo cried out, "Do not cut near the top, cut at the root."

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**Who acts:** Jogi, bamboo · **What happens:** lift, cut, cry out, not cut · **To what, where:** axe, stem, top · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jogi, bamboo), 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:pg7128:11:35
# text = When he lifted his axe to cut high up the stem, the bamboo cried out, "Do not cut near the top, cut at the root."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | Jogi | Jogi's axe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut** | to-infinitive | Jogi *not said here* |  |  | the stem |  | high *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up stem=Location |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the bamboo |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **cut** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  | the top |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **cut** *in a quote* | participle |  | the top *not said here* |  |  |  | at the root | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at root=Patient |

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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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