--- title: I gave Koumongoé to Koane, Koumongoé to the keeper of beasts; For wi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: I gave Koumongoé to Koane, Koumongoé to the keeper of beasts; For without Koumongoé they could not go to the meadows: Without Koumongoé they would starve in the hut; That was why I gave him the Koumongoé of my father. Who acts: I, beasts, That. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, beasts, That), 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:pg3282:15:89 # text = I gave Koumongoé to Koane, Koumongoé to the keeper of beasts; For without Koumongoé they could not go to the meadows: Without Koumongoé they would starve in the hut; That was why I gave him the Koumongoé of my father. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Koumongoé Koumongoé PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 iobj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Koane Koane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Koumongoé Koumongoé PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 keeper keeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 14 For for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 without without ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Koumongoé Koumongoé PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 25 Without without ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Koumongoé Koumongoé PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 starve starve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 parataxis _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 34 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 iobj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Koumongoé Koumongoé PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | I | | Koumongoé | | | to Koane and Koumongoé; to the keeper of beasts | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent koumongoé=Theme to koane=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **go** | could | beasts *= beast* | | | the meadows | | for Koumongoé | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **starve** | would | beasts *= beast* | | | the hut | | without Koumongoé | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | past | I | the Koumongoé of my father | Koane | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient koumongoé=Theme | 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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/90/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/)