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title: Our proverb, "Do not count your chickens before they are hatched," i… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Our proverb, "Do not count your chickens before they are hatched," is ultimately to be derived from India. Who acts: proverb. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. the Broken Pot., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 13

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Our proverb, "Do not count your chickens before they are hatched," is ultimately to be derived from India.

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**Who acts:** proverb · **What happens:** not count, hatch, be · **To what, where:** chickens, India

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. the Broken Pot.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proverb), 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:pg7128:36:13
# text = Our proverb, "Do not count your chickens before they are hatched," is ultimately to be derived from India.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **count** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Our proverb | your chickens |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme |
| 2 | **hatch** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | chickens *= chicken* |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present · passive |  |  |  | India |  | derive, ultimately *property* | tree rules |

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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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