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title: A Brahmin once observed a snake |----A good man had become in his fi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A Brahmin once observed a snake |----A good man had become in his field, and thinking it |friendly with the snake, who the tutelary spirit of the |came into his house and brought field, he offered it a libation |luck with it, so that the man of milk in a bowl. Who acts: Brahmin, good man, snake, thi
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 22

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A Brahmin once observed a snake \|----A good man had become in his field, and thinking it \|friendly with the snake, who the tutelary spirit of the \|came into his house and brought field, he offered it a libation \|luck with it, so that the man of milk in a bowl.

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**Who acts:** Brahmin, good man, snake, thinking · **What happens:** observe, become, think \|, spirit, come, bring · **To what, where:** snake \|, field, \|, house

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brahmin, good man, snake, thinking), 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:pg7128:46:22
# text = A Brahmin once observed a snake |----A good man had become in his field, and thinking it |friendly with the snake, who the tutelary spirit of the |came into his house and brought field, he offered it a libation |luck with it, so that the man of milk in a bowl.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Brahmin	Brahmin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	|	|	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	----	----	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
19	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	csubj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	|	|	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	tutelary	tutelary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	|	|	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
40	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	libation	libation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	|	|	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	fixed	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | past | a Brahmin | a snake \| |  |  |  | once *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent \|=Topic |
| 2 | **become** | past · perfect | a good man | a snake \| *not said here* |  | man's field |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient \|=Result |
| 3 | **think \|** *speech: other* | gerund |  | \| |  |  |  | friendly *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **spirit** |  | the snake |  |  |  |  | of the \| | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past | thinking |  |  | man's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **bring** | past | thinking *not said here* | field |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
| 7 | **offer** | past | Brahmin | field |  |  |  | so the man of milk in a bowl | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent it=Goal libation=Theme |

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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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