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title: The police guard were so alarmed at the strange behaviour of the hea… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The police guard were so alarmed at the strange behaviour of the head that they dared neither return to Larkana nor go on to Delhi. Who acts: police. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Makli Hill., sentence 129

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The police guard were so alarmed at the strange behaviour of the head that they dared neither return to Larkana nor go on to Delhi.

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**Who acts:** police · **What happens:** guard, alarm, dare, go on · **To what, where:** police, strange behaviour, return, Delhi

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Makli Hill.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (police), 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:pg76982:13:129
# text = The police guard were so alarmed at the strange behaviour of the head that they dared neither return to Larkana nor go on to Delhi.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	guard	guard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Larkana	Larkana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | present | the police *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **alarm** | past · passive |  | the police |  | the strange behaviour of the head |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **dare** | past | police | neither return |  |  |  | to Larkana | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Recipient |
| 4 | **go on** | infinitive | police *not said here* |  | Delhi |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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