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title: Even graves, it is said, were broken open, and corpses buried a day… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Even graves, it is said, were broken open, and corpses buried a day or two before were taken out and sent for their revival. Who acts: corpses. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 50

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Even graves, it is said, were broken open, and corpses buried a day or two before were taken out and sent for their revival.

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**Who acts:** corpses · **What happens:** say, break, bury, take out, send, revive · **To what, where:** face, graves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (corpses), 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:pg7128:15:50
# text = Even graves, it is said, were broken open, and corpses buried a day or two before were taken out and sent for their revival.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	revival	revival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | face |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **break** | past · passive |  | graves |  |  |  | open *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **bury** | past | corpses |  |  |  | day |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take out** | past · passive | corpses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **send** | participle | corpses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for corpses's revival | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **revive** |  | corpses *= corpse* |  |  |  |  |  | nom revival «act transitive»: 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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