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title: 238-9, who suggests that the red hair is something solar, and derive… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 238-9, who suggests that the red hair is something solar, and derived from myths of the solar hero. Who acts: red hair. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. Loving Laili., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, VIII. Loving Laili., sentence 17

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238-9, who suggests that the red hair is something solar, and derived from myths of the solar hero.

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**Who acts:** red hair · **What happens:** suggest, be, derive · **To what, where:** something, myths

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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 (red hair), 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:pg7128:39:17
# text = 238-9, who suggests that the red hair is something solar, and derived from myths of the solar hero.
1	238-9	238-9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	suggests	suggest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
11	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	derived	derive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the red hair | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **derive** | past |  |  |  | myths of the solar hero |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from myth=Material |

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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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