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title: A merchant started his son in life with three hundred rupees, and ba… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A merchant started his son in life with three hundred rupees, and bade him go to another country and try his luck in trade. Who acts: merchant. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 18

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A merchant started his son in life with three hundred rupees, and bade him go to another country and try his luck in trade.

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**Who acts:** merchant · **What happens:** start, go, try · **To what, where:** son, life, bade, country, luck, trade

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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:pg7128:16:18
# text = A merchant started his son in life with three hundred rupees, and bade him go to another country and try his luck in trade.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	rupees	rupee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | a merchant | merchant's son |  | life |  | with hundred rupees | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality with rupee=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **go** | present |  | bade |  | another country |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive |  | merchant's luck |  | trade |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality |

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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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