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title: Thus, there is no possibility of the purchaser knowing what is meant… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, there is no possibility of the purchaser knowing what is meant unless he be acquainted with trade language. Who acts: possibility, purchaser. 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 59

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Thus, there is no possibility of the purchaser knowing what is meant unless he be acquainted with trade language.

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**Who acts:** possibility, purchaser · **What happens:** be, know, mean, acquaint · **To what, where:** possibility · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (possibility, purchaser), 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:pg7128:20:59
# text = Thus, there is no possibility of the purchaser knowing what is meant unless he be acquainted with trade language.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	possibility	possibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	purchaser	purchaser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
14	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no possibility of the purchaser |  |  | there |  | thus *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | the purchaser *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mean** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **acquaint** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | possibility |  |  |  | with trade language | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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