--- title: Thus said the Soothsayer's son, and the following reply came from th… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Thus said the Soothsayer's son, and the following reply came from the king of the tigers: "Why should this base king imprison your honour, believing the mere word of a goldsmith that your honour killed his father? Who acts: following reply, base king, honour, your. 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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 (following reply, base king, honour, your), 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:pg7128:15:68 # text = Thus said the Soothsayer's son, and the following reply came from the king of the tigers: "Why should this base king imprison your honour, believing the mere word of a goldsmith that your honour killed his father? 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Soothsayer Soothsayer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 24 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 imprison imprison VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 believing believe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 mere mere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 goldsmith goldsmith NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obj _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | | the Soothsayer's son | | | | thus *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | the following reply | | | | | from the king of the tigers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from king=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **imprison** *in a quote* | should | this base king | your honour | | | | | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Theme | | 5 | **believe** *in a quote* | gerund | this base king *not said here* | the mere word of a goldsmith | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 6 | **kill** *in a quote* | past | your honour | a goldsmith | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer father=Result | | 7 | **honour** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **word** *in a quote* | | | a goldsmith | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **honour** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom honour «state 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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/69/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/)