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title: Then Sarkap brought all his skill to bear on the third and last game… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Sarkap brought all his skill to bear on the third and last game, saying, Who acts: Sarkap. 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.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 87

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Then Sarkap brought all his skill to bear on the third and last game, saying,

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**Who acts:** Sarkap · **What happens:** bring, bear, say · **To what, where:** skill, third game · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sarkap), 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:pg7128:21:87
# text = Then Sarkap brought all his skill to bear on the third and last game, saying,
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | Sarkap | Rasalu's skill |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent skill=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive | Sarkap *not said here* |  |  | the third game |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Sarkap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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