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title: Suri said to this horse, "Katar, will you take care of something tha… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Suri said to this horse, "Katar, will you take care of something that I want to give you, because the King has ordered me to be killed to-morrow?" Who acts: Suri, horse, King. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, with its dependency tree and the
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 36

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Suri said to this horse, "Katar, will you take care of something that I want to give you, because the King has ordered me to be killed to-morrow?"

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**Who acts:** Suri, horse, King · **What happens:** say, take, want, give, order, kill · **To what, where:** horse, care, Suri · **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 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Suri, horse, King), 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:pg7128:23:36
# text = Suri said to this horse, "Katar, will you take care of something that I want to give you, because the King has ordered me to be killed to-morrow?"
1	Suri	Suri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Katar	Katar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
13	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Suri |  | this horse |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to horse=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | future | this horse *= horse* | care |  |  |  | of something | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of something=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Suri |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Suri *not said here* |  | this horse *= horse* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **order** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the King |  | Suri |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **kill** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to morrow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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