--- title: The Brahman took the pearl, and went back home, cursing the folly of… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The Brahman took the pearl, and went back home, cursing the folly of his son. Who acts: Brahman. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/97/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/) / 97 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 97 The Brahman took the pearl, and went back home, cursing the folly of his son. **Who acts:** Brahman · **What happens:** take, go back, curse · **To what, where:** pearl, folly This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brahman), 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:pg7128:18:97 # text = The Brahman took the pearl, and went back home, cursing the folly of his son. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Brahman Brahman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pearl pearl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 home home ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 cursing curse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 folly folly NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the Brahman | the pearl | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme | | 2 | **go back** | past | the Brahman *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **curse** | gerund | the Brahman *not said here* | the folly of Brahman's son | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folly=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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/98/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)