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title: The Fakir chose the eldest son and took him away, and set off with h… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fakir chose the eldest son and took him away, and set off with him on his journey. Who acts: Fakir, son. 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 44

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The Fakir chose the eldest son and took him away, and set off with him on his journey.

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**Who acts:** Fakir, son · **What happens:** choose, take away, set off, journey · **To what, where:** eldest son, son, journey

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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, son), 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:pg7128:25:44
# text = The Fakir chose the eldest son and took him away, and set off with him on his journey.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fakir	Fakir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | the Fakir | the eldest son |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 2 | **take away** | past | the Fakir *not said here* | son |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **set off** | infinitive | the Fakir *not said here* |  |  | son's journey |  | with son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **journey** |  | son |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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