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title: Forgetting all his master’s kindness and favours, he thought to hims… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Forgetting all his master’s kindness and favours, he thought to himself that there now stretched in front of him an open and easy road to a throne. Who acts: Satan. 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 ev
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Noose of Murad., sentence 47

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Forgetting all his master’s kindness and favours, he thought to himself that there now stretched in front of him an open and easy road to a throne.

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**Who acts:** Satan · **What happens:** forget, think, stretch · **To what, where:** kindness, Satan, open road, throne · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Satan), 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:pg76982:12:47
# text = Forgetting all his master’s kindness and favours, he thought to himself that there now stretched in front of him an open and easy road to a throne.
1	Forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	favours	favour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	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 | **forget** | gerund | Satan *not said here* | Satan's master's kindness and favours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Satan |  | Satan |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **stretch** | participle |  | a open road | a throne | there | now | in front of Satan | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent road=Patient in front=Topic to throne=Recipient |

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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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