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title: On his return to the city his relatives wanted him to marry; but Kin… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: On his return to the city his relatives wanted him to marry; but King Dalu Rai said with a cruel sneer “He is a renegade. Who acts: relatives, king, King Dalu. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 148

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On his return to the city his relatives wanted him to marry; but King Dalu Rai said with a cruel sneer “He is a renegade.

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**Who acts:** relatives, king, King Dalu · **What happens:** want, marry, say, be, return · **To what, where:** king, renegade, return · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relatives, king, King Dalu), 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:pg76982:10:148
# text = On his return to the city his relatives wanted him to marry; but King Dalu Rai said with a cruel sneer “He is a renegade.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Dalu	Dalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	Rai	Rai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sneer	sneer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	renegade	renegade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | king's relatives | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King Dalu |  |  |  |  | with a cruel sneer and a renegade | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with sneer=Manner |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | king | a renegade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **return** |  | king |  |  |  |  | to the city | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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