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title: She did not know what to do, so she prayed all that night and all ne… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: She did not know what to do, so she prayed all that night and all next morning to the God Krishna to help her honour the Brahmans when they came. Who acts: Magadha, alms. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 48

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She did not know what to do, so she prayed all that night and all next morning to the God Krishna to help her honour the Brahmans when they came.

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**Who acts:** Magadha, alms · **What happens:** not know, do, pray, help, honour, come · **To what, where:** Magadha, Brahmans · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magadha, alms), 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:pg76982:18:48
# text = She did not know what to do, so she prayed all that night and all next morning to the God Krishna to help her honour the Brahmans when they came.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	Krishna	Krishna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	honour	honour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Magadha |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pray** | past | Magadha |  |  |  | night | to the God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | Magadha *not said here* | Magadha |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **honour** | infinitive | Magadha *not said here* | the Brahmans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | past | alms *= alm* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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