--- title: Then Sun (who was eldest) said, "I have brought nothing home for you. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then Sun (who was eldest) said, "I have brought nothing home for you. Who acts: Sun. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, 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/pg7128/29/19/) [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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/) / 19 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 19 Then Sun (who was eldest) said, "I have brought nothing home for you. **Who acts:** Sun · **What happens:** be, say, bring · **To what, where:** nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun), 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:pg7128:29:19 # text = Then Sun (who was eldest) said, "I have brought nothing home for you. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 2 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 14 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 13 obj _ _ 15 home home ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Sun | | | | | eld *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sun | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Sun | nothing | | | | for you; home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nothing=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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/20/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/)