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title: Then Rasalu was very wroth, and said bitterly, "Go back to Sarkap, s… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Rasalu was very wroth, and said bitterly, "Go back to Sarkap, slaves! and tell him that Rasalu deems it no act of bravery to kill even an enemy by treachery." Who acts: Rasalu, bravery. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependen
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 56

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Then Rasalu was very wroth, and said bitterly, "Go back to Sarkap, slaves! and tell him that Rasalu deems it no act of bravery to kill even an enemy by treachery."

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**Who acts:** Rasalu, bravery · **What happens:** be, say, go back, tell, deem, kill · **To what, where:** slaves, Rasalu, dog, enemy · **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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu, bravery), 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:pg7128:21:56
# text = Then Rasalu was very wroth, and said bitterly, "Go back to Sarkap, slaves! and tell him that Rasalu deems it no act of bravery to kill even an enemy by treachery."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	deems	deem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	bravery	bravery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	treachery	treachery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Rasalu |  |  |  | then | wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Rasalu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | slaves |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | Rasalu |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **deem** *in a quote* | present | Rasalu | dog |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme act=Attribute |
| 6 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Rasalu *not said here* | a enemy |  |  |  | by treachery | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme |
| 7 | **act** *in a quote* |  | bravery |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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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