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title: The declares their friendship at an |serpent, however, declares end,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The declares their friendship at an |serpent, however, declares end, as it could not forget the |friendship impossible, as it blow of the Brahmin's son, nor |could not forget the blow----nor the Brahmin his son's death from |the farmer his son's death from the bite of the snake. Who acts: end, |, Br
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 36

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The declares their friendship at an \|serpent, however, declares end, as it could not forget the \|friendship impossible, as it blow of the Brahmin's son, nor \|could not forget the blow----nor the Brahmin his son's death from \|the farmer his son's death from the bite of the snake.

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**Who acts:** end, \|, Brahmin, son · **What happens:** declare, not forget, death, blow, die, bite · **To what, where:** friendship, \| serpent, end, \| friendship, blow, snake

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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 (end, \|, Brahmin, son), 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:pg7128:46:36
# text = The declares their friendship at an |serpent, however, declares end, as it could not forget the |friendship impossible, as it blow of the Brahmin's son, nor |could not forget the blow----nor the Brahmin his son's death from |the farmer his son's death from the bite of the snake.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	declares	declare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	|	|	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	declares	declare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	|	|	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Brahmin	Brahmin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	38	cc	_	_
35	|	|	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	----	----	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	48	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Brahmin	Brahmin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	|	|	PUNCT	NFP	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	's	's	PART	POS	_	54	case	_	_
56	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
57	from	from	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | present |  | serpent's friendship |  | a \| serpent |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Attribute |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | present |  | end |  |  |  | however *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **forget** | could | end | the \| friendship |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **forget** | could | \| | the blow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **death** |  | the Brahmin |  |  |  |  | from the farmer  Brahmin's son's death from the bite of the snake | tree rules |
| 6 | **blow** |  | the Brahmin's son |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **die** |  | Brahmin's son |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **bite** |  |  | the snake |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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