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title: The Nepal General then told the Swami that he had received orders to… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The Nepal General then told the Swami that he had received orders to take him prisoner and humbly implored his pardon. Who acts: Nepal, Swami. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 14

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The Nepal General then told the Swami that he had received orders to take him prisoner and humbly implored his pardon.

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**Who acts:** Nepal, Swami · **What happens:** tell, receive, take, implore, pardon · **To what, where:** received orders, Swami, pardon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nepal, Swami), 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:pg76982:15:14
# text = The Nepal General then told the Swami that he had received orders to take him prisoner and humbly implored his pardon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	General	General	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Swami	swami	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	_
12	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	humbly	humbly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	implored	implore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Nepal | received orders | the Swami |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** | past · perfect | Swami |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Swami |  |  |  | prisoner *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme prisoner=Destination |
| 4 | **implore** | past |  | Swami's pardon |  |  |  | humbly *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient |
| 5 | **pardon** |  | Swami |  |  |  |  |  | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=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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