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title: So if you cannot crush all the oil out of this mustard seed, you wil… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 56

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So if you cannot crush all the oil out of this mustard seed, you will die."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not crush, die · **To what, where:** oil, mustard seed

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg7128:8:56
# text = So if you cannot crush all the oil out of this mustard seed, you will die."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	mustard	mustard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **crush** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | all oil |  | this mustard seed |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient |
| 2 | **die** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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