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title: Commentator.—God needed opposition to make Him realise His almighty… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Commentator.—God needed opposition to make Him realise His almighty strength. Who acts: Commentator, God. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Opening, sentence 11

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Commentator.—God needed opposition to make Him realise His almighty strength.

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**Who acts:** Commentator, God · **What happens:** need, make, realise · **To what, where:** opposition, God, almighty strength

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Commentator, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:1:11
# text = Commentator.—God needed opposition to make Him realise His almighty strength.
1	Commentator	commentator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	realise	realise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	almighty	almighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | past | Commentator | opposition |  |  |  | God *nsubj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot opposition=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Commentator *not said here* | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **realise** | infinitive | God *not said here* | God's almighty strength |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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