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title: So keeping his right leg on the shield, he kept his left leg as high… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: So keeping his right leg on the shield, he kept his left leg as high as he could, to save it from the flames. Who acts: Motishah. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, King Mansing of Sirohi., sentence 47

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So keeping his right leg on the shield, he kept his left leg as high as he could, to save it from the flames.

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**Who acts:** Motishah · **What happens:** keep, save · **To what, where:** right leg, shield, left leg, heat, flames

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, King Mansing of Sirohi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Motishah), 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:pg76982:16:47
# text = So keeping his right leg on the shield, he kept his left leg as high as he could, to save it from the flames.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | gerund | Motishah *not said here* | Motishah's right leg |  | the shield |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leg=Theme on shield=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Motishah | Motishah's left leg |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | to-infinitive | Motishah *not said here* | heat |  | the flames |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from flame=Source |

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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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