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title: The prince carried off the girl and the men with him said in jest “T… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince carried off the girl and the men with him said in jest “The prince’s hawk lost its prey, but the prince had better luck!” Who acts: prince, men, hawk. 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 p
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 247

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The prince carried off the girl and the men with him said in jest “The prince’s hawk lost its prey, but the prince had better luck!”

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**Who acts:** prince, men, hawk · **What happens:** carry off, say, lose, have · **To what, where:** girl, jest, prey, better luck · **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 (prince, men, hawk), 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:pg76982:10:247
# text = The prince carried off the girl and the men with him said in jest “The prince’s hawk lost its prey, but the prince had better luck!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	jest	jest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry off** | past | the prince | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the men with prince |  |  | jest |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in jest=Manner |
| 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | the prince's hawk | jest's prey |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the prince | better luck |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=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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