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title: The name for caste in Sanskrit is _varna_, "colour"; and one Hindu c… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The name for caste in Sanskrit is _varna_, "colour"; and one Hindu cannot insult another more effectually than by calling him a black man. Who acts: name, one Hindu, black man. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. Loving Laili., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Indian Fairy Tales, VIII. Loving Laili., sentence 14

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The name for caste in Sanskrit is \_varna\_, "colour"; and one Hindu cannot insult another more effectually than by calling him a black man.

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**Who acts:** name, one Hindu, black man · **What happens:** be, not insult, call · **To what, where:** \_ varna, Hindu · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. Loving Laili.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, one Hindu, black man), 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:pg7128:39:14
# text = The name for caste in Sanskrit is _varna_, "colour"; and one Hindu cannot insult another more effectually than by calling him a black man.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	caste	caste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Sanskrit	Sanskrit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	varna	varna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	Hindu	Hindu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	insult	insult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	effectually	effectually	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	21	advmod	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 name for caste in Sanskrit | \_ varna |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **insult** | can | one Hindu |  |  |  |  | effectually *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | a black man |  | Hindu |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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