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title: Captain Pauk Wales threw himself at the Swami’s feet and promised ne… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Captain Pauk Wales threw himself at the Swami’s feet and promised never more to interfere with his holy island. Who acts: Captain. 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 38

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Captain Pauk Wales threw himself at the Swami’s feet and promised never more to interfere with his holy island.

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**Who acts:** Captain · **What happens:** throw, promise, interfere · **To what, where:** Wales, feet, more

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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 (Captain), 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:pg76982:15:38
# text = Captain Pauk Wales threw himself at the Swami’s feet and promised never more to interfere with his holy island.
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Pauk	Pauk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Swami	Swami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	interfere	interfere	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | Captain and Pauk Wales | Wales |  | the Swami's feet |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Captain and Pauk Wales *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent more=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **interfere** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Captain and Pauk Wales *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Swami's holy island | 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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