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title: The need of catering for the young ones has restricted my selection… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The need of catering for the young ones has restricted my selection from the well-named "Ocean of the Streams of Story," _Katha-Sarit Sagara_ of Somadeva. Who acts: need, my. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 39

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The need of catering for the young ones has restricted my selection from the well-named "Ocean of the Streams of Story," \_Katha-Sarit Sagara\_ of Somadeva.

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**Who acts:** need, my · **What happens:** cater, restrict, name, select · **To what, where:** need, named Ocean

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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 (need, my), 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:pg7128:3:39
# text = The need of catering for the young ones has restricted my selection from the well-named "Ocean of the Streams of Story," _Katha-Sarit Sagara_ of Somadeva.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	catering	cater	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	restricted	restrict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Streams	Stream	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Katha	Katha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Sarit	Sarit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	Sagara	Sagara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Somadeva	Somadeva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cater** | gerund | the need *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the young ones | tree rules |
| 2 | **restrict** | present · perfect · passive |  | the need |  | the named Ocean of the Streams of Story |  | Sarit Sagara \_ of Somadeva *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **select** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom selection «act transitive»: poss=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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