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title: He threw himself at his master’s feet and confessing everything, pra… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He threw himself at his master’s feet and confessing everything, prayed for mercy. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 109

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He threw himself at his master’s feet and confessing everything, prayed for mercy.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** throw, confess, pray · **To what, where:** king, feet, everything

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg76982:17:109
# text = He threw himself at his master’s feet and confessing everything, prayed for mercy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	confessing	confess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	prayed	pray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **throw** | past | king | king |  | king's master's feet |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 2 | **confess** | gerund | king *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |
| 3 | **pray** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for mercy | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mercy=Theme |

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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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