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title: The king remembered the anchorite’s curse and would have ridden away… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The king remembered the anchorite’s curse and would have ridden away leaving his city and his people to their fate. Who acts: king, anchorite, people. 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 pragmatics o
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 309

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The king remembered the anchorite’s curse and would have ridden away leaving his city and his people to their fate.

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**Who acts:** king, anchorite, people · **What happens:** remember, ride away, leave, curse, fate · **To what, where:** curse, city, fate

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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 (king, anchorite, people), 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:pg76982:10:309
# text = The king remembered the anchorite’s curse and would have ridden away leaving his city and his people to their fate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	anchorite	anchorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | the king | the anchorite's curse |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent curse=Theme |
| 2 | **ride away** | would · perfect | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | the king *not said here* | king's city and king's people | people's fate |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent city=Theme to fate=Recipient |
| 4 | **curse** |  | the anchorite |  |  |  |  |  | nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **fate** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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