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title: Besides, my wife is very sad, for her six sisters' husbands all hunt… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides, my wife is very sad, for her six sisters' husbands all hunt every day, and bring home quantities of game, and their wives therefore are very proud of them. Who acts: wife, sad husbands, wives. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, with i
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 8

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Besides, my wife is very sad, for her six sisters' husbands all hunt every day, and bring home quantities of game, and their wives therefore are very proud of them.

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**Who acts:** wife, sad husbands, wives · **What happens:** be, hunt, bring · **To what, where:** home quantities

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, sad husbands, wives), 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:pg7128:24:8
# text = Besides, my wife is very sad, for her six sisters' husbands all hunt every day, and bring home quantities of game, and their wives therefore are very proud of them.
1	Besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
30	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | my wife |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | wife's six sisters's sad husbands |  |  |  | day |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | wife's six sisters's sad husbands *not said here* | home quantities of game |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | husbands's wives |  |  |  |  | of husbands *= husband*; proud *property* | tree rules |

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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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