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title: It would perhaps be as well if many of us should say to ourselves "_… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It would perhaps be as well if many of us should say to ourselves "_Ghatesa, ghatesa, kim kárana? Who acts: many. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Lac of Rupees., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XIV. Lac of Rupees., sentence 15

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It would perhaps be as well if many of us should say to ourselves "\_Ghatesa, ghatesa, kim kárana?

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**Who acts:** many · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** Ghatesa, ourselves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Lac of Rupees.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many), 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:pg7128:45:15
# text = It would perhaps be as well if many of us should say to ourselves "_Ghatesa, ghatesa, kim kárana?
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Ghatesa	Ghatesa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	ghatesa	ghatesa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	kim	Kim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	kárana	kárana	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	21	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | many of us | Ghatesa and ghatesa and kim | ourselves |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ghatesa=Topic to ourselves=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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