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title: DEATH ON THE SEA-SHORE'; which means that I must die away from home,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: DEATH ON THE SEA-SHORE'; which means that I must die away from home, far from friends and relatives on a sea-coast. Who acts: DEATH, I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 10

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DEATH ON THE SEA-SHORE'; which means that I must die away from home, far from friends and relatives on a sea-coast.

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**Who acts:** DEATH, I · **What happens:** mean, die away · **To what, where:** home · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DEATH, I), 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:pg7128:14:10
# text = DEATH ON THE SEA-SHORE'; which means that I must die away from home, far from friends and relatives on a sea-coast.
1	DEATH	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	ON	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	SEA	SEA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	SHORE	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | DEATH on the SEA SHORE |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **die away** | must | I |  |  | home |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from home=Causer |

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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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