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title: Never were such rejoicings as these few words produced. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Never were such rejoicings as these few words produced. Who acts: such rejoicings. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 22

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Never were such rejoicings as these few words produced.

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**Who acts:** such rejoicings · **What happens:** not be, produce · **To what, where:** few words

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such rejoicings), 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:pg7128:19:22
# text = Never were such rejoicings as these few words produced.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **be** | past | such rejoicings |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **produce** | participle · passive |  | this few words |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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