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title: The moves of the men are decided by the throws of a long form of dice. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The moves of the men are decided by the throws of a long form of dice. Who acts: throws, men. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Raja Rasalu., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XIX. Raja Rasalu., sentence 5

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The moves of the men are decided by the throws of a long form of dice.

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**Who acts:** throws, men · **What happens:** decide, move, throw, form · **To what, where:** moves, long form, dice

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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 (throws, men), 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:pg7128:50:5
# text = The moves of the men are decided by the throws of a long form of dice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moves	move	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	throws	throw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | present · passive | the throws of a long form of dice | the moves of the men |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **move** |  | the men |  |  |  |  |  | nom move «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **throw** |  |  | a long form of dice |  |  |  |  | nom throw «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | dice |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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