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title: The others losing in their misery all respect for their leader, let… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The others losing in their misery all respect for their leader, let him walk so that his wife, Akbar’s mother, should ride. Who acts: others, Humayun, wife. 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 18

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The others losing in their misery all respect for their leader, let him walk so that his wife, Akbar’s mother, should ride.

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**Who acts:** others, Humayun, wife · **What happens:** lose, let, walk, ride · **To what, where:** respect, misery, Humayun

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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 (others, Humayun, wife), 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:pg76982:13:18
# text = The others losing in their misery all respect for their leader, let him walk so that his wife, Akbar’s mother, should ride.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Akbar	Akbar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund | the others *not said here* | all respect |  | Others's misery |  | for Others's leader | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Eventuality |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | the others | Humayun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | infinitive | Humayun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ride** | should | Humayun's wife and Akbar's mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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