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title: The poor son of the Soothsayer, who was now almost dying of thirst,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor son of the Soothsayer, who was now almost dying of thirst, let down his vessel for a third time. Who acts: poor son. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 77

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The poor son of the Soothsayer, who was now almost dying of thirst, let down his vessel for a third time.

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**Who acts:** poor son · **What happens:** die, let down · **To what, where:** vessel

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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 (poor son), 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:pg7128:14:77
# text = The poor son of the Soothsayer, who was now almost dying of thirst, let down his vessel for a third time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Soothsayer	Soothsayer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past · progressive | the poor son of the Soothsayer |  |  |  | now | of thirst; almost *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer |
| 2 | **let down** | infinitive | the poor son of the Soothsayer | Son's vessel |  |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme |

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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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