--- title: A soothsayer when on his deathbed wrote out the horoscope of his sec… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: A soothsayer when on his deathbed wrote out the horoscope of his second son, whose name was Gangazara, and bequeathed it to him as his only property, leaving the whole of his estate to his eldest son. Who acts: name, soothsayer, Gangazara. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon W --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/14/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/14/) / 2 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 2 A soothsayer when on his deathbed wrote out the horoscope of his second son, whose name was Gangazara, and bequeathed it to him as his only property, leaving the whole of his estate to his eldest son. **Who acts:** name, soothsayer, Gangazara · **What happens:** write out, be, bequeath, leave, name · **To what, where:** horoscope, deathbed, Gangazara, name, Son, whole 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 (name, soothsayer, Gangazara), 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:pg7128:14:2 # text = A soothsayer when on his deathbed wrote out the horoscope of his second son, whose name was Gangazara, and bequeathed it to him as his only property, leaving the whole of his estate to his eldest son. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 soothsayer soothsayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 deathbed deathbed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 7 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 8 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 horoscope horoscope NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 amod _ _ 14 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 Gangazara Gangazara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 bequeathed bequeath VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 estate estate NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 40 amod _ _ 40 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write out** | past | | the horoscope of Soothsayer's second son | | Soothsayer's deathbed | | | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horoscope=Theme on deathbed=Destination | | 2 | **is a** | past | Gangazara's name | Gangazara | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bequeath** | past | a soothsayer | name | Son | | | as Soothsayer's only property | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Goal | | 4 | **leave** | gerund | a soothsayer *not said here* | the whole | Soothsayer's eldest son | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whole=Theme to son=Recipient | | 5 | **name** | | Gangazara | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/14/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/14/3/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/14/)