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title: When Laili saw their blindness, she prayed to Khuda to restore their… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Laili saw their blindness, she prayed to Khuda to restore their sight to them, which he did. Who acts: Laili, father, feasts. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 72

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When Laili saw their blindness, she prayed to Khuda to restore their sight to them, which he did.

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**Who acts:** Laili, father, feasts · **What happens:** see, pray, restore, do, sight · **To what, where:** blindness, Khuda, sight, feasts

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laili, father, feasts), 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:pg7128:12:72
# text = When Laili saw their blindness, she prayed to Khuda to restore their sight to them, which he did.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Laili	Laili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	blindness	blindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Khuda	Khuda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Laili | feasts's blindness |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blindness=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pray** | past | Laili |  | Khuda |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **restore** | to-infinitive | Laili *not said here* | feasts's sight | feasts *= feast* |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sight=Theme to they=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sight** |  | feasts *= feast* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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