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title: "Oh, my poor brain! oh, my poor brain!" cried the jackal, wringing i… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh, my poor brain! oh, my poor brain!" cried the jackal, wringing its paws. " Who acts: poor brain. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 113

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"Oh, my poor brain! oh, my poor brain!" cried the jackal, wringing its paws. "

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**Who acts:** poor brain · **What happens:** cry, wring · **To what, where:** jackal, paws

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor brain), 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:pg7128:13:113
# text = "Oh, my poor brain! oh, my poor brain!" cried the jackal, wringing its paws. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
8	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	wringing	wring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | my poor brain | the jackal |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jackal=Topic |
| 2 | **wring** | gerund | my poor brain *not said here* | brain's paws |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=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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