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title: _--Unholy fakirs are rather rare. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Unholy fakirs are rather rare. Who acts: Unholy fakirs. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. the Prince and the Fakir., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXIII. the Prince and the Fakir., sentence 4

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\_--Unholy fakirs are rather rare.

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**Who acts:** Unholy fakirs · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIII. the Prince and the Fakir.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unholy fakirs), 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:pg7128:54:4
# text = _--Unholy fakirs are rather rare.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Unholy	unholy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fakirs	fakir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Unholy fakirs |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | 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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