--- title: Once there lived a great Raja, whose name was Salabhan, and he had a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Once there lived a great Raja, whose name was Salabhan, and he had a Queen, by name Lona, who, though she wept and prayed at many a shrine, had never a child to gladden her eyes. Who acts: name, Raja, Lona, Salabhan. 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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 (name, Raja, Lona, Salabhan), 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:pg7128:20:69 # text = Once there lived a great Raja, whose name was Salabhan, and he had a Queen, by name Lona, who, though she wept and prayed at many a shrine, had never a child to gladden her eyes. 1 Once once SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Raja Raja PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 Salabhan Salabhan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 21 Lona Lona PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 though though SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 prayed pray VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 shrine shrine NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 36 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 gladden gladden VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | | a great Raja | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | Salabhan's name | Salabhan | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | Raja | a Queen | | | | Lona *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient | | 4 | **weep** | past | Lona | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pray** | past | Lona *not said here* | | | a many shrine | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **have** | past | Raja *not said here* | a child | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 7 | **gladden** | to-infinitive | Raja *not said here* | Lona's eyes | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | | 8 | **name** | | Salabhan | | | | | | nom name «communication 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/70/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/)