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title: Then the Fakir said, "King! in a year I will return, and of the two… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Fakir said, "King! in a year I will return, and of the two sons who will be born to you one is mine and one yours." Who acts: Fakir. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 28

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Then the Fakir said, "King! in a year I will return, and of the two sons who will be born to you one is mine and one yours."

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**Who acts:** Fakir · **What happens:** say, return, bear, be · **To what, where:** year, two sons, you, Fakir · **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 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fakir), 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:pg7128:25:28
# text = Then the Fakir said, "King! in a year I will return, and of the two sons who will be born to you one is mine and one yours."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	ccomp	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	_
32	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Fakir |  |  |  | then; year |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **return** *in a quote* | future | the Fakir *= fakir* | a year *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent year=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | the two sons | you |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the Fakir *= fakir* |  |  |  |  | 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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