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title: This suggestion receives strong confirmation from the Demon's refere… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This suggestion receives strong confirmation from the Demon's reference to Rahu, who does, in Indian myth swallow the moon at times of eclipse. Who acts: suggestion, Rahu, Demon. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., with its dependency tree and t
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 31

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This suggestion receives strong confirmation from the Demon's reference to Rahu, who does, in Indian myth swallow the moon at times of eclipse.

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**Who acts:** suggestion, Rahu, Demon · **What happens:** receive, do, swallow, refer · **To what, where:** strong confirmation, Rahu, reference, moon, Indian myth

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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 (suggestion, Rahu, Demon), 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:pg7128:56:31
# text = This suggestion receives strong confirmation from the Demon's reference to Rahu, who does, in Indian myth swallow the moon at times of eclipse.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Demon	Demon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Rahu	Rahu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
20	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	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 | **receive** | present | this suggestion | strong confirmation | Rahu | the Demon's reference |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent confirmation=Theme from reference=Source |
| 2 | **do** | present | Rahu |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swallow** | infinitive | Rahu *not said here* | the moon |  | Indian myth | time |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Patient |
| 4 | **refer** |  | the Demon |  |  |  |  |  | nom reference «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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