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title: Before death comes let me think of my faithful brute friends." — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Before death comes let me think of my faithful brute friends." Who acts: death, me. 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 159

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Before death comes let me think of my faithful brute friends."

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**Who acts:** death, me · **What happens:** come, let, think · **To what, where:** me

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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, me), 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:pg7128:14:159
# text = Before death comes let me think of my faithful brute friends."
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	brute	brute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | death |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | death *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of my faithful brute friends | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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