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title: Cruelty could go no further; and the broken-hearted lover ascending… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Cruelty could go no further; and the broken-hearted lover ascending the minaret, took a last view of the splendid panorama unrolled before his eyes and plunged head first from the pinnacle. Who acts: Cruelty, broken hearted lover. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutt
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 49

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Cruelty could go no further; and the broken-hearted lover ascending the minaret, took a last view of the splendid panorama unrolled before his eyes and plunged head first from the pinnacle.

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**Who acts:** Cruelty, broken hearted lover · **What happens:** go, break, ascend, take, unroll, plunge · **To what, where:** minaret, last view, pinnacle, splendid panorama

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cruelty, broken hearted lover), 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:pg76982:14:49
# text = Cruelty could go no further; and the broken-hearted lover ascending the minaret, took a last view of the splendid panorama unrolled before his eyes and plunged head first from the pinnacle.
1	Cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	ascending	ascend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	minaret	minaret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	panorama	panorama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	unrolled	unroll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
32	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pinnacle	pinnacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | could | Cruelty |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **ascend** | gerund | the broken hearted lover *not said here* | the minaret |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme minaret=Trajectory |
| 4 | **take** | past | the broken hearted lover | a last view of the splendid panorama and plunged head |  | the pinnacle |  | first *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent view=Theme from pinnacle=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **unroll** | participle |  | the splendid panorama and plunged head *not said here* |  |  | before lover's eyes |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **plunge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **view** |  |  | the splendid panorama and plunged head |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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