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title: Once upon a time there lived a poor old man whose name was Wali Dâd… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time there lived a poor old man whose name was Wali Dâd Gunjay, or Wali Dâd the Bald. Who acts: name, Wali. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 1

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Once upon a time there lived a poor old man whose name was Wali Dâd Gunjay, or Wali Dâd the Bald.

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**Who acts:** name, Wali · **What happens:** live, be, name · **To what, where:** poor old man, Wali

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Wali), 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:pg3282:34:1
# text = Once upon a time there lived a poor old man whose name was Wali Dâd Gunjay, or Wali Dâd the Bald.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	Gunjay	Gunjay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Bald	Bald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	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 |  | a poor old man |  | there | time | the Dâd Bald *obl*; once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Wali's name | Wali |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | Wali |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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:** «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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