--- title: Curiously enough, the negro form of the five-fold attack--"fighting… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Curiously enough, the negro form of the five-fold attack--"fighting with _five_ fists," Mr. Barr would call it--is probably nearer to the original legend than that preserved in the Jataka, though 2000 years older. Who acts: Barr. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon Wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/56/24/) [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/) / [XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/56/) / 24 # Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 24 Curiously enough, the negro form of the five-fold attack--"fighting with \_five\_ fists," Mr. Barr would call it--is probably nearer to the original legend than that preserved in the Jataka, though 2000 years older. **Who acts:** Barr · **What happens:** fight, call, be, preserve, form · **To what, where:** fists, attack, Jataka, fold attack · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Barr), 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:pg7128:56:24 # text = Curiously enough, the negro form of the five-fold attack--"fighting with _five_ fists," Mr. Barr would call it--is probably nearer to the original legend than that preserved in the Jataka, though 2000 years older. 1 Curiously curiously ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 enough enough ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 negro negro ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 fold fold NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 -- -- PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 20 punct _ _ 20 fists fist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 23 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:desc _ _ 24 Barr Barr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 probably probably ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 original original ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 obl _ _ 38 preserved preserve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Jataka Jataka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 though though SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 2000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl:unmarked _ _ 46 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** *in a quote* | gerund | | fists | | | | with five | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | would | Barr Mr. | attack | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | to the original legend; than that; the negro form of the fold attack *obl*; near, probably *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **preserve** | participle | | | | the Jataka | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **be** | | | | | | year | | tree rules | | 6 | **form** | | | the fold attack | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/56/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/56/25/) - ↑ back to [XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/56/)