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title: The serpent-king and tiger-king also promised to observe their oath… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The serpent-king and tiger-king also promised to observe their oath as long as justice prevailed, and took their leave. Who acts: serpent king, justice. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 76

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The serpent-king and tiger-king also promised to observe their oath as long as justice prevailed, and took their leave.

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**Who acts:** serpent king, justice · **What happens:** promise, observe, prevail, take · **To what, where:** oath, leave

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent king, justice), 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:pg7128:15:76
# text = The serpent-king and tiger-king also promised to observe their oath as long as justice prevailed, and took their leave.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the serpent king and tiger king |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **observe** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the serpent king and tiger king *not said here* | king's oath |  |  |  | long *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oath=Topic |
| 3 | **prevail** | past | justice |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | the serpent king and tiger king *not said here* | king's leave |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=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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