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title: If you want your two pice back, you must sign a document, binding yo… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: If you want your two pice back, you must sign a document, binding your son never to abide by my advice and always to stand and watch people fighting.” Who acts: you, people. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Wisdom Seller., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Wisdom Seller., sentence 65

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If you want your two pice back, you must sign a document, binding your son never to abide by my advice and always to stand and watch people fighting.”

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**Who acts:** you, people · **What happens:** want, sign, bind, not abide, stand, watch · **To what, where:** two pice, document, son, people

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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 (you, people), 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:pg76982:17:65
# text = If you want your two pice back, you must sign a document, binding your son never to abide by my advice and always to stand and watch people fighting.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	pice	pice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sign	sign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	document	document	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	binding	bind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | your two pice |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pice=Theme |
| 2 | **sign** | must | you | a document |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent document=Destination |
| 3 | **bind** | gerund | you *not said here* | your son |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **abide** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by my advice | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **watch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 7 | **fight** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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