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title: This is an essentially Indian trait; almost all Hindus have some tri… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This is an essentially Indian trait; almost all Hindus have some tribal or caste mark on their bodies or faces. Who acts: This, Hindus, some. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. the Boy With Moon on Forehead., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXII. the Boy With Moon on Forehead., sentence 6

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This is an essentially Indian trait; almost all Hindus have some tribal or caste mark on their bodies or faces.

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**Who acts:** This, Hindus, some · **What happens:** be, have, mark · **To what, where:** Indian trait, bodies

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. the Boy With Moon on Forehead.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Hindus, some), 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:pg7128:53:6
# text = This is an essentially Indian trait; almost all Hindus have some tribal or caste mark on their bodies or faces.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	essentially	essentially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trait	trait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
13	tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	caste	caste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a Indian trait |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | all Hindus |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mark** |  | some |  |  | Hindus's bodies or faces |  |  | tree rules |

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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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