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title: On leaving the city their way led through a cemetery where a few peo… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On leaving the city their way led through a cemetery where a few people were praying beside a grave and distributing chapatis and kulchas to passers-by, in the name of their beloved dead. Who acts: few people. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 137

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On leaving the city their way led through a cemetery where a few people were praying beside a grave and distributing chapatis and kulchas to passers-by, in the name of their beloved dead.

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**Who acts:** few people · **What happens:** leave, lead, pray, distribute · **To what, where:** city, way, cemetery, grave, chapatis, passers

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few people), 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:pg7128:25:137
# text = On leaving the city their way led through a cemetery where a few people were praying beside a grave and distributing chapatis and kulchas to passers-by, in the name of their beloved dead.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
7	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	distributing	distribute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
22	chapatis	chapati	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	kulchas	kulcha	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	passers	passer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **leave** | gerund |  | the city |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | horses's way *not said here* |  | a cemetery |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through cemetery=Destination |
| 3 | **pray** | past · progressive | a few people |  |  | a grave |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **distribute** | gerund | a few people *not said here* | chapatis and kulchas | passers |  |  | by the name of people's beloved dead | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chapati=Theme to passer=Recipient |

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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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