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title: The parrot answered “If he kills his own son and sprinkles his blood… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The parrot answered “If he kills his own son and sprinkles his blood over the stone body, the minister will become flesh and blood once more.” Who acts: parrot, king, minister. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 107

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The parrot answered “If he kills his own son and sprinkles his blood over the stone body, the minister will become flesh and blood once more.”

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**Who acts:** parrot, king, minister · **What happens:** answer, kill, sprinkle, become · **To what, where:** own son, blood, stone body, flesh · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, king, minister), 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:pg76982:11:107
# text = The parrot answered “If he kills his own son and sprinkles his blood over the stone body, the minister will become flesh and blood once more.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sprinkles	sprinkle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
24	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	advmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the parrot |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | king | king's own son |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 3 | **sprinkle** *in a quote* | present | king *not said here* | king's blood |  | the stone body |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme over body=Destination |
| 4 | **become** *in a quote* | future | the minister | flesh and blood |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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