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title: Now in that palace there was a maid named Jihva (which means Tongue)… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now in that palace there was a maid named Jihva (which means Tongue), who, with the assistance of her brother, had stolen that treasure from the interior of the palace. Who acts: maid, Jihva. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its dependen
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 134

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Now in that palace there was a maid named Jihva (which means Tongue), who, with the assistance of her brother, had stolen that treasure from the interior of the palace.

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**Who acts:** maid, Jihva · **What happens:** be, name, mean, steal, assist · **To what, where:** palace, maid, Tongue, Jihva, interior, brother

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, Jihva), 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:pg7128:15:134
# text = Now in that palace there was a maid named Jihva (which means Tongue), who, with the assistance of her brother, had stolen that treasure from the interior of the palace.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	Jihva	Jihva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	Tongue	Tongue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	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 | **be** | past | a maid |  |  | that palace; there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | Jihva | Tongue |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Topic |
| 4 | **steal** | past · perfect · passive |  | Jihva |  | the interior of the palace |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary treasure=Theme |
| 5 | **assist** |  |  | maid's brother |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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