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title: The Santals are a forest tribe, who live in the Santal Parganas, 140… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Santals are a forest tribe, who live in the Santal Parganas, 140 miles N.W. of Calcutta (Sir W. W. Hunter, _The Indian Empire_, 57-60). Who acts: Santals, forest tribe. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. the Magic Fiddle., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Indian Fairy Tales, VI. the Magic Fiddle., sentence 5

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The Santals are a forest tribe, who live in the Santal Parganas, 140 miles N.W. of Calcutta (Sir W. W. Hunter, \_The Indian Empire\_, 57-60).

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**Who acts:** Santals, forest tribe · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** forest tribe, Santal Parganas

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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 (Santals, forest tribe), 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:pg7128:37:5
# text = The Santals are a forest tribe, who live in the Santal Parganas, 140 miles N.W. of Calcutta (Sir W. W. Hunter, _The Indian Empire_, 57-60).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Santals	Santal	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Santal	Santal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Parganas	Pargana	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	140	140	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	N.W	N.W	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Calcutta	Calcutta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
24	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	57-60	57-60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Santals | a forest tribe |  |  |  | the Indian Empire *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | a forest tribe |  |  | the Santal Parganas |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pargana=Location |

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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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