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title: But after a year or two be began to think that the old woman, who ha… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But after a year or two be began to think that the old woman, who had raised him so high, might raise him higher still, might make him a king or perhaps even emperor of Delhi. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad., with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 22

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But after a year or two be began to think that the old woman, who had raised him so high, might raise him higher still, might make him a king or perhaps even emperor of Delhi.

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**What happens:** be, think, raise, make · **To what, where:** old woman, proverb, king

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg76982:12:22
# text = But after a year or two be began to think that the old woman, who had raised him so high, might raise him higher still, might make him a king or perhaps even emperor of Delhi.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	higher	high	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | year | begin *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | the old woman *ccomp* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **raise** | past · perfect · passive |  | the old woman |  |  |  | proverb *obj*; high *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination |
| 4 | **raise** | might |  | proverb |  |  | still |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | might |  | a king or emperor of Delhi | proverb |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary king=Product |

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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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