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title: On getting the money, he told Vidhya to feign insanity and to preten… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: On getting the money, he told Vidhya to feign insanity and to pretend that he did not understand what the king asked him. Who acts: boy, 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 87

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On getting the money, he told Vidhya to feign insanity and to pretend that he did not understand what the king asked him.

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**Who acts:** boy, king · **What happens:** get, tell, feign, pretend, not understand, ask · **To what, where:** money, Vidhya, insanity, boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boy, 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:pg76982:17:87
# text = On getting the money, he told Vidhya to feign insanity and to pretend that he did not understand what the king asked him.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Vidhya	Vidhya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	feign	feign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	insanity	insanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | gerund | boy *not said here* | the money |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | boy |  | Vidhya |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent vidhya=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **feign** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | insanity |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insanity=Patient |
| 4 | **pretend** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the king |  | boy |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |

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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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