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title: The guilty couple have fled, so we cannot return them, but take the… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The guilty couple have fled, so we cannot return them, but take the manuscript and the diamond since they are yours. Who acts: guilty couple, we, hands. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Noose of Murad., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 39

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The guilty couple have fled, so we cannot return them, but take the manuscript and the diamond since they are yours.

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**Who acts:** guilty couple, we, hands · **What happens:** flee, not return, take, be · **To what, where:** hands, manuscript, yours

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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: who acts (guilty couple, we, hands), 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:pg76982:12:39
# text = The guilty couple have fled, so we cannot return them, but take the manuscript and the diamond since they are yours.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	manuscript	manuscript	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | present · perfect | the guilty couple |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **return** | can | we | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | the guilty couple *not said here* | the manuscript and the diamond |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manuscript=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | hands *= hand* | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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