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title: There is yet time for me to return and save my father from an ignomi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is yet time for me to return and save my father from an ignominious and unjust death, and the king from danger." Who acts: time, me. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 59

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There is yet time for me to return and save my father from an ignominious and unjust death, and the king from danger."

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**Who acts:** time, me · **What happens:** be, return, save · **To what, where:** father, ignominious death

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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 (time, me), 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:pg7128:26:59
# text = There is yet time for me to return and save my father from an ignominious and unjust death, and the king from danger."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	ignominious	ignominious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	unjust	unjust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | time |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | to-infinitive | me |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | me *not said here* | my father |  | a ignominious death |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent father=Theme from death=Source |

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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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