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title: I have changed the Indian mercantile numerals into those of English… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have changed the Indian mercantile numerals into those of English "back-slang," which make a very good parallel. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. Pride Goeth Before a Fall., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XVIII. Pride Goeth Before a Fall., sentence 3

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I have changed the Indian mercantile numerals into those of English "back-slang," which make a very good parallel.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** change, make · **To what, where:** Indian mercantile numerals, slang, good parallel

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. Pride Goeth Before a Fall.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg7128:49:3
# text = I have changed the Indian mercantile numerals into those of English "back-slang," which make a very good parallel.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	mercantile	mercantile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	numerals	numeral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
9	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present · perfect | I | the Indian mercantile numerals |  |  |  | into slang *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent numeral=Patient into slang=Result |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | a good parallel |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset parallel=Product |

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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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