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title: Perhaps without anything to sustain life I may drag on my existence… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps without anything to sustain life I may drag on my existence for a day or two. Who acts: I, my. 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 156

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Perhaps without anything to sustain life I may drag on my existence for a day or two.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** sustain, drag, exist · **To what, where:** life, existence

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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 (I, my), 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:pg7128:14:156
# text = Perhaps without anything to sustain life I may drag on my existence for a day or two.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	sustain	sustain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sustain** | to-infinitive |  | life |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 2 | **drag** | may | I |  |  | my existence | day |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on existence=Location |
| 3 | **exist** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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