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title: 247-80, omitting "How Raja Rasalu was Born," "How Raja Rasalu's Frie… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 247-80, omitting "How Raja Rasalu was Born," "How Raja Rasalu's Friends Forsook Him," "How Raja Rasalu Killed the Giants," and "How Raja Rasalu became a Jogi." Who acts: Raja, Born. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Raja Rasalu., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XIX. Raja Rasalu., sentence 3

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247-80, omitting "How Raja Rasalu was Born," "How Raja Rasalu's Friends Forsook Him," "How Raja Rasalu Killed the Giants," and "How Raja Rasalu became a Jogi."

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**Who acts:** Raja, Born · **What happens:** omit, be, kill, become · **To what, where:** Giants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Raja Rasalu.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raja, Born), 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:pg7128:50:3
# text = 247-80, omitting "How Raja Rasalu was Born," "How Raja Rasalu's Friends Forsook Him," "How Raja Rasalu Killed the Giants," and "How Raja Rasalu became a Jogi."
1	247-80	247-80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	omitting	omit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	Born	born	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
14	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
17	Friends	Friends	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Forsook	Forsook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
19	Him	Him	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	Killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Giants	Giant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
34	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	_
36	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **omit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Raja |  |  |  |  | born *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** *in a quote* | past | Raja | the Giants |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme |
| 4 | **become** *in a quote* | past | Born |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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