--- title: When the whole town was assembled, just at the dusk of evening, Gang… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When the whole town was assembled, just at the dusk of evening, Gangazara sat dumb for a moment, and thought upon the Tiger King and the Serpent King, who came with all their armies. Who acts: Gangazara, Tiger King. 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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 (Gangazara, Tiger King), 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:pg7128:15:58 # text = When the whole town was assembled, just at the dusk of evening, Gangazara sat dumb for a moment, and thought upon the Tiger King and the Serpent King, who came with all their armies. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 assembled assemble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 15 Gangazara Gangazara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 dumb dumb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 24 upon upon ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Tiger Tiger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 ccomp _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Serpent Serpent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 38 det:predet _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 armies army NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **assemble** | past · passive | | the whole town | | | dusk | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | past | Gangazara | | | | moment | dumb *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Gangazara *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | past | the Tiger King and the Serpent King | | | | | with king's armies | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/59/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/)