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title: Directly the king is on its back, it will fly away with him into the… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Directly the king is on its back, it will fly away with him into the air and will then drown him by flinging him into the sea.” Who acts: king, demon. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 49

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Directly the king is on its back, it will fly away with him into the air and will then drown him by flinging him into the sea.”

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**Who acts:** king, demon · **What happens:** be, fly away, drown, fling · **To what, where:** back, air, king, sea

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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 (king, demon), 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:pg76982:11:49
# text = Directly the king is on its back, it will fly away with him into the air and will then drown him by flinging him into the sea.”
1	Directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the king |  |  | demon's back |  | demon *nmod:poss*; directly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly away** | future | demon |  |  |  |  | into the air *result*; with king; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result |
| 3 | **drown** | future | demon *not said here* | king |  |  | then |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **fling** | gerund | demon *not said here* | king |  | the sea |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme into sea=Destination |

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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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