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title: At last hearing of the new shrine, they went there and extorted from… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: At last hearing of the new shrine, they went there and extorted from its guardians the whole truth. Who acts: troops, new shrine. 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 134

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At last hearing of the new shrine, they went there and extorted from its guardians the whole truth.

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**Who acts:** troops, new shrine · **What happens:** go, extort, hear · **To what, where:** last hearing, whole truth, guardians

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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 (troops, new shrine), 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:pg76982:13:134
# text = At last hearing of the new shrine, they went there and extorted from its guardians the whole truth.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	extorted	extort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | troops |  |  | last hearing of the new shrine; there |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at hearing=Location |
| 2 | **extort** | participle | troops *not said here* | the whole truth |  | shrine's guardians |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent truth=Theme from guardian=Source |
| 3 | **hear** |  | the new shrine |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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