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title: From the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom, we seek the garish sun… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom, we seek the garish sun and arid soil of the Hindoo. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 11

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From the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom, we seek the garish sun and arid soil of the Hindoo.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** seek, soil · **To what, where:** garish sun, soft rain, Hindoo

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg7128:3:11
# text = From the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom, we seek the garish sun and arid soil of the Hindoo.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	turf	turf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Gaeldom	Gaeldom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	garish	garish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	arid	arid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Hindoo	Hindoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present | we | the garish sun and arid soil of the Hindoo |  | the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme |
| 2 | **soil** |  |  | the Hindoo |  |  |  |  | nom soil «state 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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