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title: At the same time each sent word to Vidhya that if he did not depose… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same time each sent word to Vidhya that if he did not depose in favour of her maid-servant he would be beheaded. Who acts: VIDHYA, maid servant. 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 80

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At the same time each sent word to Vidhya that if he did not depose in favour of her maid-servant he would be beheaded.

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**Who acts:** VIDHYA, maid servant · **What happens:** send, not depose, behead, favour · **To what, where:** favour, VIDHYA, maid servant

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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 (VIDHYA, maid servant), 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:pg76982:17:80
# text = At the same time each sent word to Vidhya that if he did not depose in favour of her maid-servant he would be beheaded.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Vidhya	Vidhya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	depose	depose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	appos	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	beheaded	behead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **depose** | past · do-support | VIDHYA |  |  | favour of maid's maid servant |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **behead** | would · passive | maid's maid servant *not said here* | VIDHYA |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **favour** |  |  | maid's maid servant |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=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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