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title: The idea that they had conquered ten men and plundered all their pro… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The idea that they had conquered ten men and plundered all their property, now took possession of the robbers' minds. Who acts: robbers. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 42

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The idea that they had conquered ten men and plundered all their property, now took possession of the robbers' minds.

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**Who acts:** robbers · **What happens:** conquer, plunder, take, possess, mind · **To what, where:** idea, property, possession, minds

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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:pg7128:20:42
# text = The idea that they had conquered ten men and plundered all their property, now took possession of the robbers' minds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	plundered	plunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past · perfect · passive |  | the idea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **plunder** | past |  | traders's property |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Source |
| 3 | **take** | past |  | possession of the robbers's minds |  |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 4 | **possess** |  |  | the robbers's minds |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **mind** |  | the robbers |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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