--- title: A further version in Temple, _Legends of Panjab_, vol. i. _Chaupur_,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: A further version in Temple, _Legends of Panjab_, vol. i. _Chaupur_, I should explain, is a game played by two players with eight men, each on a board in the shape of a cross, four men to each cross covered with squares. Who acts: I, further version. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jaco --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/50/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [XIX. Raja Rasalu.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/50/) / 4 # Indian Fairy Tales, XIX. Raja Rasalu., sentence 4 A further version in Temple, \_Legends of Panjab\_, vol. i. \_Chaupur\_, I should explain, is a game played by two players with eight men, each on a board in the shape of a cross, four men to each cross covered with squares. **Who acts:** I, further version · **What happens:** explain, be, play, cover · **To what, where:** further version, game, shape, cross 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 (I, further version), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:50:4 # text = A further version in Temple, _Legends of Panjab_, vol. i. _Chaupur_, I should explain, is a game played by two players with eight men, each on a board in the shape of a cross, four men to each cross covered with squares. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 further further ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Temple Temple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Panjab Panjab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 vol. vol. NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 14 i. i. X FW Foreign=Yes 13 dep _ _ 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Chaupur Chaupur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 26 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 32 appos _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 46 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 appos _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 49 det _ _ 49 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 50 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 acl _ _ 51 with with ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 squares square NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | should | I | a further version in Temple *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | a further version in Temple | a game | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **play** | participle | | a game *not said here* | | the shape of a cross | | by two players; with eight men | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent | | 4 | **cover** | participle | | each cross *not said here* | | | | with squares | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with square=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/50/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/50/5/) - ↑ back to [XIX. 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