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title: Don't I give shade and shelter to every one who passes by, and don't… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Don't I give shade and shelter to every one who passes by, and don't they in return tear down my branches to feed their cattle? Who acts: I, one, shade. 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 cla
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 93

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Don't I give shade and shelter to every one who passes by, and don't they in return tear down my branches to feed their cattle?

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**Who acts:** I, one, shade · **What happens:** not do, give, pass by, do, not tear down, feed · **To what, where:** shade, one, branches, return, cattle

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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 (I, one, shade), 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:pg7128:13:93
# text = Don't I give shade and shelter to every one who passes by, and don't they in return tear down my branches to feed their cattle?
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	tear	tear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present | I | shade and shelter | every one |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent shade=Theme to one=Recipient |
| 3 | **pass by** | present | every one |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **tear down** | present | shade | my branches |  | return |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location branch=Theme |
| 6 | **feed** | to-infinitive | shade *not said here* |  | shade's cattle |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Recipient |

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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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