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title: Nur Mahomed soon proved himself as able and honourable a governor as… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nur Mahomed soon proved himself as able and honourable a governor as he was a brave soldier; and, when the old king died, he became king in his place, and reigned long and happily. Who acts: Nur, old king, king. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stro
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 189

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Nur Mahomed soon proved himself as able and honourable a governor as he was a brave soldier; and, when the old king died, he became king in his place, and reigned long and happily.

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**Who acts:** Nur, old king, king · **What happens:** prove, be, die, become, reign · **To what, where:** Nur, brave soldier, king, place

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nur, old king, king), 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:pg3282:33:189
# text = Nur Mahomed soon proved himself as able and honourable a governor as he was a brave soldier; and, when the old king died, he became king in his place, and reigned long and happily.
1	Nur	nur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	honourable	honourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | past | Nur | Nur |  |  |  | as a able governor; soon *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme as governor=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Nur | a brave soldier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | past | the old king |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **become** | past | king | king |  |  |  | in king's place *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in place=Result |
| 5 | **reign** | past | Nur *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «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.

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