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title: Seeing him thus carried by the hamsas, some villagers called out, "T… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing him thus carried by the hamsas, some villagers called out, "Two wild ducks are carrying a tortoise along on a stick!" Who acts: Seeing, Two wild ducks. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 61

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Seeing him thus carried by the hamsas, some villagers called out, "Two wild ducks are carrying a tortoise along on a stick!"

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**Who acts:** Seeing, Two wild ducks · **What happens:** see, carry, call out · **To what, where:** Mount, villagers, tortoise, stick · **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 (Seeing, Two wild ducks), 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:pg7128:17:61
# text = Seeing him thus carried by the hamsas, some villagers called out, "Two wild ducks are carrying a tortoise along on a stick!"
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj:pass	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hamsas	hamsa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	along	along	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | Mount |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **carry** | participle | Seeing |  |  |  |  | by the hamsas and some villagers; thus *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: express* | participle |  | some villagers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **carry** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Two wild ducks | a tortoise |  | a stick |  | along *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme |

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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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