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title: Among these may be mentioned THE TALES OF SINDIBAD, known to Europe… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Among these may be mentioned THE TALES OF SINDIBAD, known to Europe as _The Seven Sages of Rome:_ from this we get the Gellert story (_cf. Who acts: we, SINDIBAD. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 11

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Among these may be mentioned THE TALES OF SINDIBAD, known to Europe as \_The Seven Sages of Rome:\_ from this we get the Gellert story (\_cf.

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**Who acts:** we, SINDIBAD · **What happens:** mention, know, get, tell · **To what, where:** these, TALES, Europe, Gellert story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, SINDIBAD), 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:pg7128:30:11
# text = Among these may be mentioned THE TALES OF SINDIBAD, known to Europe as _The Seven Sages of Rome:_ from this we get the Gellert story (_cf.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
6	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	TALES	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	SINDIBAD	SINDIBAD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	Sages	sage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | may · passive |  | these |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the TALES of SINDIBAD *not said here* | Europe |  |  | as the Seven Sages of Rome | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as sage=Attribute |
| 3 | **get** | present | we | the Gellert story |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tell** |  | SINDIBAD |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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