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title: At once four armed soldiers flew to the river, and bound the poor Br… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At once four armed soldiers flew to the river, and bound the poor Brahman hand and foot, while he, sitting in meditation, was without any knowledge of the fate that hung over him. Who acts: four armed soldiers, prince, fate. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 144

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At once four armed soldiers flew to the river, and bound the poor Brahman hand and foot, while he, sitting in meditation, was without any knowledge of the fate that hung over him.

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**Who acts:** four armed soldiers, prince, fate · **What happens:** fly, bind, sit, be, hang · **To what, where:** poor Brahman hand, meditation

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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 (four armed soldiers, prince, fate), 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:pg7128:14:144
# text = At once four armed soldiers flew to the river, and bound the poor Brahman hand and foot, while he, sitting in meditation, was without any knowledge of the fate that hung over him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bound	bind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	meditation	meditation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | four armed soldiers |  |  |  |  | to the river | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **bind** | past | four armed soldiers *not said here* | the poor Brahman hand and foot |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | prince |  |  | meditation |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meditation=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | four armed soldiers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without any knowledge; of the fate | tree rules |
| 5 | **hang** | past | the fate |  |  |  |  | over prince | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location |

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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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