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title: Thus thought he, and after all the funeral obsequies of his father w… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus thought he, and after all the funeral obsequies of his father were over, took leave of his elder brother, and started for Benares. Who acts: funeral obsequies. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 13

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Thus thought he, and after all the funeral obsequies of his father were over, took leave of his elder brother, and started for Benares.

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**Who acts:** funeral obsequies · **What happens:** think, be, take, start · **To what, where:** DEATH, leave

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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 (funeral obsequies), 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:pg7128:14:13
# text = Thus thought he, and after all the funeral obsequies of his father were over, took leave of his elder brother, and started for Benares.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	obsequies	obsequy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Benares	Benares	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | DEATH |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | all funeral obsequies of DEATH's father |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past |  | leave of DEATH's elder brother |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 4 | **start** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for Benares | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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