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title: And Harisarman, who was alone inside, was at that very moment blamin… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Harisarman, who was alone inside, was at that very moment blaming his own tongue, that had made a vain assumption of knowledge. Who acts: Harisarman, moment, that. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 136

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And Harisarman, who was alone inside, was at that very moment blaming his own tongue, that had made a vain assumption of knowledge.

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**Who acts:** Harisarman, moment, that · **What happens:** be, blame, make, assume · **To what, where:** own tongue, vain assumption, knowledge

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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 (Harisarman, moment, that), 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:pg7128:15:136
# text = And Harisarman, who was alone inside, was at that very moment blaming his own tongue, that had made a vain assumption of knowledge.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	Harisarman	Harisarman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	assumption	assumption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Harisarman |  |  |  |  | alone, inside *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Harisarman |  |  |  | at that moment |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **blame** | gerund | that moment *not said here* | Harisarman's own tongue |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect | that | a vain assumption of knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset assumption=Product |
| 5 | **assume** |  |  | knowledge |  |  |  |  | nom assumption «communication 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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