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title: For who else by a single word could thus command vast armies of tige… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For who else by a single word could thus command vast armies of tigers and serpents, said some among the people. " 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 62

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For who else by a single word could thus command vast armies of tigers and serpents, said some among the people. "

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**What happens:** command, say · **To what, where:** vast armies, some · **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: 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:pg7128:15:62
# text = For who else by a single word could thus command vast armies of tigers and serpents, said some among the people. "
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	command	command	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | could |  | vast armies of tigers and serpents |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent army=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | some |  |  |  | among the people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent some=Topic |

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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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