--- title: Said the Teacher to him: "Is it really true that you have ceased all… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Said the Teacher to him: "Is it really true that you have ceased all striving?"--"Yes, Blessed One," he replied. Who acts: Teacher, 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/) / 73 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 73 Said the Teacher to him: "Is it really true that you have ceased all striving?"--"Yes, Blessed One," he replied. **Who acts:** Teacher, Brother · **What happens:** say, be, cease, strive, bless, reply · **To what, where:** Brother, One · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Teacher, Brother), 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:pg7128:26:73 # text = Said the Teacher to him: "Is it really true that you have ceased all striving?"--"Yes, Blessed One," he replied. 1 Said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 really really ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 ccomp _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 ceased cease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 advmod _ _ 17 striving strive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 -- -- PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 24 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 Blessed bless VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 25 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Teacher | | Brother | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Teacher | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **cease** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Brother | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **strive** *in a quote* | gerund | Brother *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bless** *in a quote* | participle | | One | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 6 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Brother | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/74/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/)