--- title: "Give your mistress my salam," he replied, "and tell her that the mo… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Give your mistress my salam," he replied, "and tell her that the moon is new, and that I can only find eleven months in the year, and the sea is by no means full." Who acts: you, mistress, moon, Half way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mistress, moon, Half way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:26:52 # text = "Give your mistress my salam," he replied, "and tell her that the moon is new, and that I can only find eleven months in the year, and the sea is by no means full." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 salam salam NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 28 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 40 obl _ _ 40 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 41 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | my salam | your mistress | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient salam=Theme | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | mistress | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | way | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the moon | | | | | new *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** *in a quote* | can | Half way *= way* | | | | month; year | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the sea | | | | | by no; full, mean *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/53/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/)