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title: The disciples faithfully carried out their master’s wishes and when… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The disciples faithfully carried out their master’s wishes and when the pat of butter did not melt on his forehead, they threw his body into the great river. Who acts: disciples, pat, master. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., with its dep
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 45

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The disciples faithfully carried out their master’s wishes and when the pat of butter did not melt on his forehead, they threw his body into the great river.

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**Who acts:** disciples, pat, master · **What happens:** carry out, not melt, throw, wish, pat · **To what, where:** wishes, forehead, body, great river, butter

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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 (disciples, pat, master), 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:pg76982:15:45
# text = The disciples faithfully carried out their master’s wishes and when the pat of butter did not melt on his forehead, they threw his body into the great river.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	disciples	disciple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pat	pat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	melt	melt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry out** | past | the disciples | disciples's master's wishes |  |  |  | faithfully *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **melt** | past · do-support | the pat of butter |  |  | Swami's forehead |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **throw** | past | disciples *= disciple* | Swami's body |  |  |  | into the great river *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer body=Theme into river=Result |
| 4 | **wish** |  | disciples's master |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **pat** |  |  | butter |  |  |  |  | nom pat «event 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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