--- title: However, if you are determined to go and play chaupur with him, take… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: However, if you are determined to go and play chaupur with him, take some of the bones from this graveyard, and make your dice out of them, and then the enchanted dice with which my brother plays will lose their virtue. Who acts: you, brother. 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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 (you, brother), 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:pg7128:21:8 # text = However, if you are determined to go and play chaupur with him, take some of the bones from this graveyard, and make your dice out of them, and then the enchanted dice with which my brother plays will lose their virtue. 1 However however ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 determined determined ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 chaupur chaupur NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 graveyard graveyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 dice dice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 out out ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 enchanted enchant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 36 dice dice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obl _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 parataxis _ _ 42 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 virtue virtue NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | you | | | | | determined, however *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **play** | infinitive | you *not said here* | chaupur | | | | with corpse | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with he=Co-Agent | | 4 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | some | | this graveyard | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent some=Theme from graveyard=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your dice | | | | out bones *= bone* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dice=Product | | 6 | **enchant** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **play** | present | my brother | | | | | with the enchanted dice | tree rules | | 8 | **lose** | future | my brother *not said here* | bones's virtue | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Eventuality | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/9/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/21/)