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title: Nur Mahomed’s old mother lived for a long time in her “son’s” palace… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nur Mahomed’s old mother lived for a long time in her “son’s” palace, and died in peace. Who acts: old mother. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 190

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Nur Mahomed’s old mother lived for a long time in her “son’s” palace, and died in peace.

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**Who acts:** old mother · **What happens:** live, die · **To what, where:** son palace

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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 (old mother), 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:pg3282:33:190
# text = Nur Mahomed’s old mother lived for a long time in her “son’s” palace, and died in peace.
1	Nur	Nur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Nur's old mother |  |  | mother's son palace | time |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
| 2 | **die** | past | Nur's old mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in peace | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in peace=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:** «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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