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title: _This story the Teacher told in Jetavana about a Brother who had cea… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _This story the Teacher told in Jetavana about a Brother who had ceased striving after righteousness. Who acts: story, Brother. 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 72

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\_This story the Teacher told in Jetavana about a Brother who had ceased striving after righteousness.

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**Who acts:** story, Brother · **What happens:** tell, cease, strive · **To what, where:** Jetavana · **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 (story, Brother), 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:pg7128:26:72
# text = _This story the Teacher told in Jetavana about a Brother who had ceased striving after righteousness.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Jetavana	Jetavana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	striving	strive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | this story |  |  | Jetavana |  | about a Brother | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about brother=Topic |
| 2 | **cease** | past · perfect | a Brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **strive** | gerund | a Brother *not said here* |  |  |  | after righteousness |  | 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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