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title: To give God full possession of it, Satan sacrificed himself and rebe… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: To give God full possession of it, Satan sacrificed himself and rebelled, although he knew that he would thereafter be punished eternally. Who acts: Satan, 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 12

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To give God full possession of it, Satan sacrificed himself and rebelled, although he knew that he would thereafter be punished eternally.

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**Who acts:** Satan, God · **What happens:** give, sacrifice, rebel, know, punish, possess · **To what, where:** full possession, God, possession · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Satan, 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:pg76982:1:12
# text = To give God full possession of it, Satan sacrificed himself and rebelled, although he knew that he would thereafter be punished eternally.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rebelled	rebel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
24	eternally	eternally	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | to-infinitive | Satan *not said here* | full possession of possession | God |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent god=Recipient possession=Theme |
| 2 | **sacrifice** | past | Satan | God |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **rebel** | past | Satan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | past | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **punish** | would · passive |  | God |  |  |  | eternally, thereafter *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **possess** |  |  | possession |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act 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:** «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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