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description: Then the Teacher said: "O Brother, in former days wise men made effort in the place where effort should be made, and so attained unto royal power." 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
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 74

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Then the Teacher said: "O Brother, in former days wise men made effort in the place where effort should be made, and so attained unto royal power."

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**Who acts:** Teacher, Brother · **What happens:** say, make, attain · **To what, where:** effort, place · **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 (Teacher, 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:pg7128:26:74
# text = Then the Teacher said: "O Brother, in former days wise men made effort in the place where effort should be made, and so attained unto royal power."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
16	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
21	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	attained	attain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
29	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Teacher |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | past | Brother | effort |  | the place | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | should · passive |  | effort |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **attain** *in a quote* | participle | Brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto royal power | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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