--- title: "Go, my son; in the kingdom of Candahar, in the city of Takkasila, i… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Go, my son; in the kingdom of Candahar, in the city of Takkasila, is a far-famed teacher from whom I wish you to learn. Who acts: you, teacher. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, 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/pg7128/26/85/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/) / 85 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 85 "Go, my son; in the kingdom of Candahar, in the city of Takkasila, is a far-famed teacher from whom I wish you to learn. **Who acts:** you, teacher · **What happens:** go, fame, be, wish, learn · **To what, where:** famed teacher, you This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, teacher), 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:pg7128:26:85 # text = "Go, my son; in the kingdom of Candahar, in the city of Takkasila, is a far-famed teacher from whom I wish you to learn. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Candahar Candahar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Takkasila Takkasila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 21 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 famed fame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nmod _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | my son *vocative* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fame** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | a famed teacher | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | my teacher *= teacher* | | you | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **learn** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | my teacher *= teacher* *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/86/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/26/)