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title: "A service have we done thee" [the opening words of the _gatha_ or m… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "A service have we done thee" [the opening words of the _gatha_ or moral verse]. " A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 123

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"A service have we done thee" \[the opening words of the \_gatha\_ or moral verse\]. "

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**What happens:** do, word · **To what, where:** service, gatha

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:29:123
# text = "A service have we done thee" [the opening words of the _gatha_ or moral verse]. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	opening	opening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	gatha	gatha	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | a service |  |  |  | the opening words of the gatha or moral verse *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **word** |  |  | the gatha or moral verse |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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