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title: To hang them, impale them and throw them under the feet of his eleph… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: To hang them, impale them and throw them under the feet of his elephants was the serious business of his life. Who acts: you. 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 72

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To hang them, impale them and throw them under the feet of his elephants was the serious business of his life.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hang, impale, throw, be · **To what, where:** ears, serious business, feet

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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 (you), 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:pg76982:13:72
# text = To hang them, impale them and throw them under the feet of his elephants was the serious business of his life.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	impale	impale	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **impale** | imperative | you *not said here* | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the serious business |  | the feet of Isa's elephants |  | of Isa's life | 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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