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title: The elder brother wished to purchase it, and offered to support the… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The elder brother wished to purchase it, and offered to support the Jogi for a whole year if he would consent to part with his wonderful instrument. Who acts: elder brother, Jogi. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, with its dependency tree and 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 42

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The elder brother wished to purchase it, and offered to support the Jogi for a whole year if he would consent to part with his wonderful instrument.

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**Who acts:** elder brother, Jogi · **What happens:** wish, purchase, offer, support, consent · **To what, where:** Fiddle, Jogi, part

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brother, Jogi), 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:pg7128:11:42
# text = The elder brother wished to purchase it, and offered to support the Jogi for a whole year if he would consent to part with his wonderful instrument.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Jogi	Jogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | the elder brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **purchase** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the elder brother *not said here* | Fiddle |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | participle | the elder brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **support** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the elder brother *not said here* | the Jogi |  |  | year |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jogi=Stimulus |
| 5 | **consent** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Jogi | part |  |  |  | with Jogi's wonderful instrument | 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:** «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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