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title: He will be calling the land water, and the water land; and be speaki… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He will be calling the land water, and the water land; and be speaking of light where there is darkness, and of darkness when it is light." Who acts: man, darkness. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 4

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He will be calling the land water, and the water land; and be speaking of light where there is darkness, and of darkness when it is light."

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**Who acts:** man, darkness · **What happens:** call, speak, be · **To what, where:** land water, light · **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 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, darkness), 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:pg7128:26:4
# text = He will be calling the land water, and the water land; and be speaking of light where there is darkness, and of darkness when it is light."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | future · progressive | man | the land water |  |  |  | the water land *obl* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent water=Recipient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive · progressive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of light | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | present | darkness |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | darkness | light |  |  |  |  | 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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