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title: You must pretend that I came to discharge a long-standing debt with… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You must pretend that I came to discharge a long-standing debt with you, and that you are several thousands of rupees richer than you thought you were. Who acts: You, I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 48

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You must pretend that I came to discharge a long-standing debt with you, and that you are several thousands of rupees richer than you thought you were.

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** pretend, come, discharge, stand, be, think · **To what, where:** long standing debt, several thousands, you

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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: who acts (You, I), 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:pg7128:29:48
# text = You must pretend that I came to discharge a long-standing debt with you, and that you are several thousands of rupees richer than you thought you were.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	discharge	discharge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	rupees	rupee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	conj	_	_
26	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | must | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **discharge** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a long standing debt |  |  |  | with you | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | you | several thousands |  |  |  | of rupees | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | you | you |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |

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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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