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title: While Majnun was busy eating a fruit in this way, and was talking to… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While Majnun was busy eating a fruit in this way, and was talking to Husain Mahamat, he turned towards him and saw Laili walking behind the Wazir's son. " Who acts: Majnun, Laili. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, with its dependency tree and 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 106

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While Majnun was busy eating a fruit in this way, and was talking to Husain Mahamat, he turned towards him and saw Laili walking behind the Wazir's son. "

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**Who acts:** Majnun, Laili · **What happens:** be, eat, talk, turn, see, walk · **To what, where:** fruit, way, Husain, Laili

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majnun, Laili), 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:pg7128:12:106
# text = While Majnun was busy eating a fruit in this way, and was talking to Husain Mahamat, he turned towards him and saw Laili walking behind the Wazir's son. "
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
5	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Husain	Husain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	Mahamat	Mahamat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	Laili	Laili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
27	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Wazir	Wazir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Majnun |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | Majnun *not said here* | a fruit |  | this way |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 3 | **talk** | past · progressive | Majnun *not said here* |  | Husain |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to husain=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | past | Majnun |  |  |  |  | towards Husain | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards he=Trajectory |
| 5 | **see** | past | Majnun *not said here* | Laili |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **walk** | gerund | Laili *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind the Wazir's son | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind son=Trajectory |

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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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