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title: There he told his sovereign that a certain sadhu of Muran Jharee had… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: There he told his sovereign that a certain sadhu of Muran Jharee had vowed by his austerities to destroy the kingdom. Who acts: Gusai, austerities. 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 cla
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo., sentence 9

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There he told his sovereign that a certain sadhu of Muran Jharee had vowed by his austerities to destroy the kingdom.

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**Who acts:** Gusai, austerities · **What happens:** tell, vow, destroy · **To what, where:** sovereign, certain sadhu, kingdom · **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 (Gusai, austerities), 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:pg76982:15:9
# text = There he told his sovereign that a certain sadhu of Muran Jharee had vowed by his austerities to destroy the kingdom.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sadhu	sadhu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Muran	Muran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Jharee	Jharee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	vowed	vow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	austerities	austerity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Gusai |  | Gusai's sovereign | there |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent sovereign=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **vow** | past · perfect · passive | Gusai's austerities | a certain sadhu of Muran |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | Gusai's austerities *not said here* | the kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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