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title: The chombu, which he carried always full, filling it with the sweet… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The chombu, which he carried always full, filling it with the sweet water from the flowing rivulet or plenteous tank, he had exhausted in the heat of the desert. Who acts: chombu, desert. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, with its dependency t
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 17

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The chombu, which he carried always full, filling it with the sweet water from the flowing rivulet or plenteous tank, he had exhausted in the heat of the desert.

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**Who acts:** chombu, desert · **What happens:** carry, fill, flow, exhaust, heat · **To what, where:** store, flowing rivulet, heat

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chombu, desert), 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:pg7128:14:17
# text = The chombu, which he carried always full, filling it with the sweet water from the flowing rivulet or plenteous tank, he had exhausted in the heat of the desert.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chombu	chombu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	rivulet	rivulet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	plenteous	plenteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | the chombu |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | gerund | the chombu *not said here* | store |  | the flowing rivulet or plenteous tank |  | with the sweet water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **exhaust** | past · perfect | chombu |  |  | the heat of the desert |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **heat** |  | the desert |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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:** «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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