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title: The blade missed his head and grazing his side cut through the rope… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The blade missed his head and grazing his side cut through the rope which bound him. Who acts: blade, grazing, rope. 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 89

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The blade missed his head and grazing his side cut through the rope which bound him.

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**Who acts:** blade, grazing, rope · **What happens:** miss, graze, cut, bind · **To what, where:** head, side, blade

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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 (blade, grazing, rope), 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:pg76982:16:89
# text = The blade missed his head and grazing his side cut through the rope which bound him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	missed	miss	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	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bound	bind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | past | the blade | blade's head |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus |
| 2 | **graze** | gerund |  | blade's side |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cut** | past | grazing |  |  |  |  | through the rope | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through rope=Patient |
| 4 | **bind** | past | the rope | blade |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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