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description: And the Bodisat spake openly, and said, "O great king! be it thou, or be it any other, whoever talks beyond measure meets with some mishap like this." Who acts: Bodisat spake, great king, whoever, measure. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, wi
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 75

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And the Bodisat spake openly, and said, "O great king! be it thou, or be it any other, whoever talks beyond measure meets with some mishap like this."

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**Who acts:** Bodisat spake, great king, whoever, measure · **What happens:** say, be, talk, meet · **To what, where:** thou, spake · **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 (Bodisat spake, great king, whoever, measure), 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:pg7128:17:75
# text = And the Bodisat spake openly, and said, "O great king! be it thou, or be it any other, whoever talks beyond measure meets with some mishap like this."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Bodisat	Bodisat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	openly	openly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	conj	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
27	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	mishap	mishap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Bodisat spake |  |  |  |  | openly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | great king | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | great king *not said here* | spake *= speak* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **talk** *in a quote* | present | whoever |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **meet** *in a quote* | present | measure |  |  |  |  | with some mishap like this | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mishap=Co-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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