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title: He went by the middle of the Deccan, avoiding both the coasts, and w… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He went by the middle of the Deccan, avoiding both the coasts, and went on journeying and journeying for weeks and months, till at last he reached the Vindhya mountains. Who acts: DEATH. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, with its dependency tr
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 14

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He went by the middle of the Deccan, avoiding both the coasts, and went on journeying and journeying for weeks and months, till at last he reached the Vindhya mountains.

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**Who acts:** DEATH · **What happens:** go, avoid, journey, reach · **To what, where:** coasts, Vindhya mountains

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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), 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:pg7128:14:14
# text = He went by the middle of the Deccan, avoiding both the coasts, and went on journeying and journeying for weeks and months, till at last he reached the Vindhya mountains.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Deccan	Deccan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	avoiding	avoid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc:preconj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	till	till	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Vindhya	Vindhya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | DEATH |  |  |  |  | by the middle of the Deccan | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by middle=Location |
| 2 | **avoid** | gerund | DEATH *not said here* | the coasts |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent coast=Location |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **journey** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **journey** | gerund |  |  |  |  | week |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **reach** | past | DEATH | the Vindhya mountains |  |  | till last |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme |

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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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