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title: By the rules of this secret language erith means "three," enty means… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By the rules of this secret language erith means "three," enty means "ten," and eno means "one." Who acts: secret language erith, enty, eno. 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 60

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By the rules of this secret language erith means "three," enty means "ten," and eno means "one."

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**Who acts:** secret language erith, enty, eno · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** three, ten, one

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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 (secret language erith, enty, eno), 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:pg7128:20:60
# text = By the rules of this secret language erith means "three," enty means "ten," and eno means "one."
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	erith	erith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	enty	enty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	eno	eno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | secret language erith | three |  |  |  | by the rules | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | enty | ten |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | eno | one |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |

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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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