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title: He got a loan of five thousand rupees from a brother merchant, leavi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He got a loan of five thousand rupees from a brother merchant, leaving the dog as a pledge, and with the money began business again. Who acts: dog, money. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 134

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He got a loan of five thousand rupees from a brother merchant, leaving the dog as a pledge, and with the money began business again.

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**Who acts:** dog, money · **What happens:** get, leave, begin, loan · **To what, where:** loan, dog, business, thousand rupees

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, money), 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:pg7128:17:134
# text = He got a loan of five thousand rupees from a brother merchant, leaving the dog as a pledge, and with the money began business again.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	rupees	rupee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pledge	pledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | dog | a loan of thousand rupees from a brother merchant |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loan=Stimulus |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | dog *not said here* | the dog |  |  |  | as a pledge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the money | business |  |  | again |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality |
| 4 | **loan** |  |  | thousand rupees from a brother merchant |  |  |  |  | nom loan «possession 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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