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title: A Bonga is the presiding spirit of a certain kind of rice land; Doms… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A Bonga is the presiding spirit of a certain kind of rice land; Doms and Hadis are low-caste aborigines, whose touch is considered polluting. Who acts: Bonga, Doms. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. the Magic Fiddle., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Indian Fairy Tales, VI. the Magic Fiddle., sentence 4

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A Bonga is the presiding spirit of a certain kind of rice land; Doms and Hadis are low-caste aborigines, whose touch is considered polluting.

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**Who acts:** Bonga, Doms · **What happens:** preside, be, consider · **To what, where:** presiding spirit, caste aborigines, touch

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. the Magic Fiddle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bonga, Doms), 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:pg7128:37:4
# text = A Bonga is the presiding spirit of a certain kind of rice land; Doms and Hadis are low-caste aborigines, whose touch is considered polluting.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bonga	Bonga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	presiding	preside	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
15	Doms	Doms	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Hadis	Hadi	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	caste	caste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	aborigines	aborigine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
28	polluting	polluting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preside** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a Bonga | the presiding spirit |  |  |  | of a certain kind of rice land | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Doms and Hadis | caste aborigines |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **consider** | present · passive |  | touch |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |

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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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