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title: It is well known that Easterns explain an eclipse of the moon as due… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is well known that Easterns explain an eclipse of the moon as due to its being swallowed up by a Dragon or Demon. Who acts: Easterns, Dragon. 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 29

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It is well known that Easterns explain an eclipse of the moon as due to its being swallowed up by a Dragon or Demon.

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**Who acts:** Easterns, Dragon · **What happens:** know, explain, swallow up, eclipse · **To what, where:** moon, eclipse

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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 (Easterns, Dragon), 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:pg7128:56:29
# text = It is well known that Easterns explain an eclipse of the moon as due to its being swallowed up by a Dragon or Demon.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Easterns	eastern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	explain	explain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Demon	Demon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | moon |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | Easterns | a eclipse of the moon |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eclipse=Topic |
| 3 | **swallow up** | gerund · passive | a Dragon or Demon |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eclipse** |  |  | the moon |  |  |  |  | nom eclipse «event 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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