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title: The city, though crowded with people, was as if dead, as far as you… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The city, though crowded with people, was as if dead, as far as you were concerned; while, in the cemetery, which is crowded with the dead, you were saluted by kind friends and provided with bread." Who acts: city, you, cemetery, kind friends. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Dem
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 37

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The city, though crowded with people, was as if dead, as far as you were concerned; while, in the cemetery, which is crowded with the dead, you were saluted by kind friends and provided with bread."

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**Who acts:** city, you, cemetery, kind friends · **What happens:** be, salute, provide · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, you, cemetery, kind friends), 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:pg7128:26:37
# text = The city, though crowded with people, was as if dead, as far as you were concerned; while, in the cemetery, which is crowded with the dead, you were saluted by kind friends and provided with bread."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	saluted	salute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	parataxis	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the city |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | you |  |  |  |  | concerned, far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the cemetery |  |  |  |  | with the dead; crowded *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **salute** | past · passive | kind friends | you |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 5 | **provide** | participle | kind friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with bread | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bread=Theme |

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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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