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title: _Thus the Teacher reached the summit, through sainthood and the teac… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Thus the Teacher reached the summit, through sainthood and the teaching of the law, and thereupon he declared the Four Truths. Who acts: Teacher. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 5

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\_Thus the Teacher reached the summit, through sainthood and the teaching of the law, and thereupon he declared the Four Truths.

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**Who acts:** Teacher · **What happens:** reach, declare, teach · **To what, where:** summit, sainthood, Four Truths, law

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Teacher), 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:pg7128:27:5
# text = _Thus the Teacher reached the summit, through sainthood and the teaching of the law, and thereupon he declared the Four Truths.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sainthood	sainthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	Truths	Truth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the Teacher | the summit |  | sainthood and the teaching of the law |  | thus *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent summit=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Teacher | the Four Truths |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Attribute |
| 3 | **teach** |  |  | the law |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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