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title: The idea of a son of seven mothers could only arise in a polygamous… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The idea of a son of seven mothers could only arise in a polygamous country. Who acts: idea. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., sentence 16

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The idea of a son of seven mothers could only arise in a polygamous country.

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**Who acts:** idea · **What happens:** arise · **To what, where:** polygamous country

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Son of Seven Queens.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea), 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:pg7128:47:16
# text = The idea of a son of seven mothers could only arise in a polygamous country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	polygamous	polygamous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | could | the idea of a son of seven mothers |  |  | a polygamous country |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=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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