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title: Men who spit on a lamp, lit by Almighty God soon find that they have… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Men who spit on a lamp, lit by Almighty God soon find that they have in their folly, set fire to their own beards.” Who acts: Men, words. 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 claus
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh., sentence 69

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Men who spit on a lamp, lit by Almighty God soon find that they have in their folly, set fire to their own beards.”

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**Who acts:** Men, words · **What happens:** spit, lit, find, have, set · **To what, where:** lamp, Men, folly, fire · **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 (Men, words), 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:pg76982:10:69
# text = Men who spit on a lamp, lit by Almighty God soon find that they have in their folly, set fire to their own beards.”
1	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spit	spit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Almighty	almighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	beards	beard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spit** | present | Men |  |  | a lamp |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on lamp=Destination |
| 2 | **lit** | participle |  | Men *not said here* |  |  |  | by Almighty  God | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | present | Men |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | words *= word* |  |  | words's folly |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **set** | infinitive | Men *not said here* | fire |  |  |  | to words's own beards | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result |

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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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