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title: _Tâ tai tôm_ had left the lips of the singer; and, before _tadingana… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Tâ tai tôm_ had left the lips of the singer; and, before _tadingana_ was out of them, the traders separated into parties of three, and each party pounced upon a thief. Who acts: _. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, with its dependency tree a
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 64

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\_Tâ tai tôm\_ had left the lips of the singer; and, before \_tadingana\_ was out of them, the traders separated into parties of three, and each party pounced upon a thief.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** leave, be, separate, pounce · **To what, where:** Tâ, traders, parties, party, thief

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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 (\_), 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:pg7128:20:64
# text = _Tâ tai tôm_ had left the lips of the singer; and, before _tadingana_ was out of them, the traders separated into parties of three, and each party pounced upon a thief.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tâ	Tâ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	tai	tai	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
4	tôm	tôm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tadingana	tadingana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
27	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
36	pounced	pounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | Tâ |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme lip=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | \_ |  |  |  |  | out lips *= lip* | tree rules |
| 3 | **separate** | participle |  | the traders *not said here* |  | parties of three |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **pounce** | participle |  | each party *not said here* |  | a thief |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon thief=Trajectory |

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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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