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title: Salar obeyed, la mort dans l’âme; but he vented his spleen by cursin… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Salar obeyed, la mort dans l’âme; but he vented his spleen by cursing the said saint in the following quatrain: Who acts: Salar. 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 of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 56

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Salar obeyed, la mort dans l’âme; but he vented his spleen by cursing the said saint in the following quatrain:

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**Who acts:** Salar · **What happens:** obey, vent, curse, say, follow · **To what, where:** la dans l’âme, spleen, said saint, quatrain · **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 (Salar), 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:pg76982:10:56
# text = Salar obeyed, la mort dans l’âme; but he vented his spleen by cursing the said saint in the following quatrain:
1	Salar	Salar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	compound	_	_
5	mort	mort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dans	dan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	l’âme	l'âme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	vented	vent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	spleen	spleen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	cursing	curse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	case	_	_
22	quatrain	quatrain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | past | Salar | la dans l’âme |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **vent** | past | Salar | Salar's spleen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **curse** | gerund | Salar *not said here* | the said saint |  | the quatrain |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saint=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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