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title: _), but Vitalis refuses to have anything to do with him, and altoget… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _), but Vitalis refuses to have anything to do with him, and altogether repudiates the fifty talents. " Who acts: Vitalis. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 21

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\_), but Vitalis refuses to have anything to do with him, and altogether repudiates the fifty talents. "

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**Who acts:** Vitalis · **What happens:** refuse, not have, do, repudiate · **To what, where:** anything, fifty talents

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vitalis), 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:pg7128:41:21
# text = _), but Vitalis refuses to have anything to do with him, and altogether repudiates the fifty talents. "
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	Vitalis	Vitalis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	refuses	refuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	repudiates	repudiate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	talents	talent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | present | Vitalis |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **have** | to-infinitive | Vitalis *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | Vitalis *not said here* | anything *not said here* |  |  |  | with Vitalis | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **repudiate** | present | Vitalis *not said here* | the fifty talents |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talent=Theme |

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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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