--- title: "Sea-born am I, bought with much gold; Dear Prince! trust me now as… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Sea-born am I, bought with much gold; Dear Prince! trust me now as of old. Who acts: Dear Prince. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, 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/pg7128/21/68/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/) / 68 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 68 "Sea-born am I, bought with much gold; Dear Prince! trust me now as of old. **Who acts:** Dear Prince · **What happens:** be, buy, trust · **To what, where:** Bhaunr This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear Prince), 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:pg7128:21:68 # text = "Sea-born am I, bought with much gold; Dear Prince! trust me now as of old. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 bought buy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 16 trust trust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 19 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 21 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | I *obl*; bear *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | with much gold | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **trust** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dear Prince | Bhaunr | | | now | as old | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/69/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/)