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title: “Satan is the only true lover, all others are mere prattlers. — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: “Satan is the only true lover, all others are mere prattlers. Who acts: Satan, others. 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 8

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“Satan is the only true lover, all others are mere prattlers.

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**Who acts:** Satan, others · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** only true lover, mere prattlers

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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, others), 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:pg76982:1:8
# text = “Satan is the only true lover, all others are mere prattlers.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	prattlers	prattler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Satan | the only true lover and mere prattlers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | all others | mere prattlers |  |  |  |  | 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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