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description: And the future Buddha, wanting to cure this talkativeness of his, was constantly seeking for some means of doing so. Who acts: future Buddha, wanting, seeking. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 49

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And the future Buddha, wanting to cure this talkativeness of his, was constantly seeking for some means of doing so.

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**Who acts:** future Buddha, wanting, seeking · **What happens:** want, cure, seek, mean, do · **To what, where:** talkativeness · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (future Buddha, wanting, seeking), 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:pg7128:17:49
# text = And the future Buddha, wanting to cure this talkativeness of his, was constantly seeking for some means of doing so.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	talkativeness	talkativeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	csubj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	ccomp	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | gerund | the future Buddha |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **cure** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the future Buddha *not said here* | Buddha's talkativeness |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer talkativeness=Source |
| 3 | **seek** | past · progressive | wanting |  |  |  |  | for some; constantly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for some=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | seeking |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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