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title: But, after nearly bursting himself with blowing the conch in every c… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, after nearly bursting himself with blowing the conch in every conceivable way, he was obliged to give up the secret as a bad job. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 33

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But, after nearly bursting himself with blowing the conch in every conceivable way, he was obliged to give up the secret as a bad job.

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**What happens:** burst, blow, oblige, give up · **To what, where:** lender, conch, secret

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:22:33
# text = But, after nearly bursting himself with blowing the conch in every conceivable way, he was obliged to give up the secret as a bad job.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	conch	conch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	conceivable	conceivable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | gerund |  | lender |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | gerund |  | the conch |  |  |  | in every conceivable way | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent conch=Patient in way=Topic |
| 3 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | lender |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **give up** | to-infinitive |  | the secret |  |  |  | as a bad job | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Source |

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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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