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title: _--The son of seven mothers is a characteristic Indian conception, f… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The son of seven mothers is a characteristic Indian conception, for which see Notes on "The Son of Seven Queens" in this collection, No. xvi. Who acts: son, characteristic Indian conception. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin., with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 6

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\_--The son of seven mothers is a characteristic Indian conception, for which see Notes on "The Son of Seven Queens" in this collection, No. xvi.

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**Who acts:** son, characteristic Indian conception · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** characteristic Indian conception, Notes

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, characteristic Indian conception), 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:pg7128:35:6
# text = _--The son of seven mothers is a characteristic Indian conception, for which see Notes on "The Son of Seven Queens" in this collection, No. xvi.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	Notes	Note	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	Queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	xvi	xvi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the son of seven mothers | a characteristic Indian conception |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | a characteristic Indian conception | Notes |  |  |  | on Seven Queens in this collection and No. xvi | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |

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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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