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title: "My friend," returned the money-lender, piously, "riches come from R… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "My friend," returned the money-lender, piously, "riches come from Ram--ask _him_." Who acts: friend, riches. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 17

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"My friend," returned the money-lender, piously, "riches come from Ram--ask \_him\_."

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**Who acts:** friend, riches · **What happens:** return, come, ask · **To what, where:** money lender, Ram, friend · **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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, riches), 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:pg7128:22:17
# text = "My friend," returned the money-lender, piously, "riches come from Ram--ask _him_."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	lender	lender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	piously	piously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ram	Ram	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | My friend | the money lender |  |  |  | piously *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | riches |  |  | Ram |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ram=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | friend |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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