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description: We can trace it to Africa, where it occurs in Cape Colony (_South African Folk-Lore Journal_, vol. i.). Who acts: We, story. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 10

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We can trace it to Africa, where it occurs in Cape Colony (\_South African Folk-Lore Journal\_, vol. i.).

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**Who acts:** We, story · **What happens:** trace, occur · **To what, where:** story, Africa, Cape Colony

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, story), 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:pg7128:56:10
# text = We can trace it to Africa, where it occurs in Cape Colony (_South African Folk-Lore Journal_, vol. i.).
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	trace	trace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Colony	Colony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
17	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Journal	Journal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	vol.	vol.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace** | can | We | story | Africa |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **occur** | present | story |  |  | Cape Colony |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in colony=Location |

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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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