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title: Similarly, the "Bride Wager" incident at the end is common to a larg… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Similarly, the "Bride Wager" incident at the end is common to a large number of Indian and European folk-tales (Temple, Analysis, p. 430; my List, _l.c. sub voce_). Who acts: Wager incident, my. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam., with its dependency tree and th
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# Indian Fairy Tales, II. Princess Labam., sentence 14

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Similarly, the "Bride Wager" incident at the end is common to a large number of Indian and European folk-tales (Temple, Analysis, p. 430; my List, \_l.c. sub voce\_).

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**Who acts:** Wager incident, my · **What happens:** be, list

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wager incident, 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:pg7128:33:14
# text = Similarly, the "Bride Wager" incident at the end is common to a large number of Indian and European folk-tales (Temple, Analysis, p. 430; my List, _l.c. sub voce_).
1	Similarly	similarly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Wager	wager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Temple	Temple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Analysis	Analysis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	430	430	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	List	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	l.c	l.c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
39	sub	sub	ADV	AFX	_	13	nsubj	_	_
40	voce	voce	X	NN	_	39	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Wager incident at the end |  |  |  |  | to a large number of Indian folk tales; common, similarly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **list** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication 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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