--- title: Now Chumman Basa had come quite near, and seemed very pleasant, so t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now Chumman Basa had come quite near, and seemed very pleasant, so thought Prince Majnun; but when he was speaking to Majnun, he drew his scimitar and cut off the prince's head at one blow. Who acts: Chumman. 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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 (Chumman), 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:pg7128:13:48 # text = Now Chumman Basa had come quite near, and seemed very pleasant, so thought Prince Majnun; but when he was speaking to Majnun, he drew his scimitar and cut off the prince's head at one blow. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 Chumman Chumman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 Basa Basa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 quite quite ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 near near ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 Majnun Majnun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Majnun Majnun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 scimitar scimitar NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 33 off off ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past · perfect | Chumman | | | | now | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **seem** | past | | | | | | pleasant *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | | Prince | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot prince=Theme | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Chumman | | Majnun | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to majnun=Co-Agent | | 5 | **draw** | past | Chumman | Chumman's scimitar | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scimitar=Theme | | 6 | **cut off** | participle | Chumman *not said here* | the prince's head | | one blow | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/49/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/)