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title: Magadha threw herself at Shri Krishna’s feet; but the great God rais… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: Magadha threw herself at Shri Krishna’s feet; but the great God raised her and said “The ceremonies you performed in my honour were all wrong. Who acts: Magadha, great God, you, ceremonies. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Magadha and Rupvati., with its dependency tre
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Magadha and Rupvati., sentence 78

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Magadha threw herself at Shri Krishna’s feet; but the great God raised her and said “The ceremonies you performed in my honour were all wrong.

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**Who acts:** Magadha, great God, you, ceremonies, my · **What happens:** throw, raise, say, perform, be, honour · **To what, where:** Magadha, feet, ceremonies, honour · **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, great God, you, ceremonies), 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:pg76982:18:78
# text = Magadha threw herself at Shri Krishna’s feet; but the great God raised her and said “The ceremonies you performed in my honour were all wrong.
1	Magadha	Magadha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	Shri	Shri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Krishna	Krishna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | Magadha | Magadha |  | Shri's feet |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 2 | **raise** | past | the great God | Magadha |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the great God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **perform** *in a quote* | past | you | the ceremonies *not said here* |  | my honour |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the ceremonies |  |  |  |  | all, wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **honour** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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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