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title: He will be so pleased with it, that he will pick it up and pass it r… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He will be so pleased with it, that he will pick it up and pass it round among his courtiers to collect alms for the Brahmans, who are conducting the ceremony. Who acts: king, Brahmans. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and the
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 63

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He will be so pleased with it, that he will pick it up and pass it round among his courtiers to collect alms for the Brahmans, who are conducting the ceremony.

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**Who acts:** king, Brahmans · **What happens:** be, pick up, pass, collect, conduct · **To what, where:** wedding, courtiers, alms, ceremony

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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, Brahmans), 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:pg76982:11:63
# text = He will be so pleased with it, that he will pick it up and pass it round among his courtiers to collect alms for the Brahmans, who are conducting the ceremony.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	round	round	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	conducting	conduct	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	acl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | king |  |  |  |  | with wedding; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pick up** | future | king | wedding |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **pass** | infinitive | king *not said here* | wedding |  | king's courtiers |  | round *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme among courtier=Destination |
| 4 | **collect** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | alms |  |  |  | for the Brahmans | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme |
| 5 | **conduct** | present · progressive | the Brahmans | the ceremony |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=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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